Person

Trumble, Hugh Compson (1894 - 1962)

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Born
28 May 1894
Nhill, Victoria, Australia
Died
16 October 1962
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Neurosurgeon

Summary

Hugh Trumble was one of the outstanding neurosurgeons of his era in Melbourne being largely concerned with cerebral tumours and abscesses. Much of his surgery was ground-breaking, often utilising instruments and mechanical aids of his own invention. He was a world authority on sympathectomies. His publications ranged widely over surgery for tuberculosis, orthopaedics, intracranial tumours and the autonomic nervous system. From 1934 he led Australia's first neurosurgical unit at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, being formally appointed Neurosurgeon in 1946. Trumble was a founding member of the Society of Australasian Neurosurgeons in 1940.

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Chronology

1916
Education - MB BS, University of Melbourne
1916 - 1920
Career position - Served with the Australian Imperial Forces
1918
Award - Military Cross
1921
Education - Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons, London
1922 -
Career position - Surgeon, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne
1922 - 1946
Career position - Impatient Surgeon, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne
1940
Career position - Foundation member, Neurosurgical Society of Australasia
1946 - 1954
Career position - Neurosurgeon, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne
1954
Life event - Retired

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Books

  • Trumble, H. C.: edited by Leonard Cox, R. S. Lawson and T. E. Lowe, The collected papers of Hugh Trumble (Melbourne: Alfred Hospital in association with melbourne University Press, 1957), 301 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Guest, J.S., 'Trumble, Hugh Compson (1894-1962), Surgeon' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds, vol. 16 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), pp. 414-415. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160501b.htm. Details
  • Sunderland, S., 'The Cox-Trumble contribution to Australian neurology' in Neurology in Australia, Morris, J., ed. (Sydney: Australian Association of Neurologists, 1994), pp. 99-111. Details

Journal Articles

  • Cox, Leonard, 'Hugh Compson Trumble', Medical Journal of Australia, 1963 (1) (1963), 406-8. Details

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See also

  • Alfred Healthcare Group Heritage Committee ed., Alfred Hospital: Faces and Places volume I(-III) (Prahran, Vic.: Alfred Healthcare Group, 1996-2004), 360 pp. Details
  • Curtis, J. Bryant, Miller, Douglas and Simpson, Donald, 'The Neurosurgical Society of Australasia: the first forty years', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 50 (4) (1980), 434-7. Details
  • Mitchell, Ann M., The hospital south of the Yarra: a history of the Alfred Hospital Melbourne from foundation to the nineteen-forties (Melbourne: The Hospital, 1977), 299 pp. Details
  • Simpson, D. A.; Jamieson, K. G.; and Morson, S. M., 'The foundations of neurosurgery in Australian and New Zealand', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 44 (3) (1974), 215-27. Details

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