Dix Victor Wilkinson

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Victor Wilkinson Dix (1899-1992)
Victor Dix, who died in June aged 93, was the former Professor of Surgery at London University and was an expert in the surgery of urinary stones and cancer of the bladder. Born on 24 May 1899 in Dorset, he was educated at Newcastle Grammar School before joining the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War, ending up as a flying instructor. After the war he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, and then entered the London Hospital Medical College in 1921, qualifying in 1923 and becoming MRCP and FRCS in 1926.
During a spell in Berlin in the mid-thirties he learnt the new method of intravenous urography and brought this back to England, quickly building up a reputation in the treatment of hydronephrosis. At the outbreak of war he carried out emergency surgery during the Blitz, his house and private clinic being destroyed by bombing. He then joined the RAMC, serving in Egypt as a surgeon in a general hospital, before being posted to the Far East as a consultant surgeon to South-East Asia Land Forces.
It was in 1947 that he was appointed Professor of Surgery at the London Hospital, retiring in 1964. He was a founder member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, becoming president in 1962.
A marvellous technical surgeon, he was quick yet unhurried and all operations looked easy in his hands. His breadth of knowledge enabled him to follow the Everest story with an understanding of both the altitude and climbing difficulties. I was very fortunate to have spent my formative years as a surgeon on his unit.
Tall, strikingly handsome and impeccably dressed, Victor Dix had many interests: photography, opera, Australian stamps (on which he was an authority) and, of course, mountaineering. He joined the Alpine Club in 1940 after several seasons climbing classic routes in the Alps, both with and without guides.
Michael Ward
Quelle: Alpine Journal Vol. 98, 1993, Seite 333


Geboren am:
24.05.1899
Gestorben am:
29.06.1992