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He was born in London in 1833, the eighth son (hence the name) of John and Elisabeth SturgesóWest
He attended King"s College School and then was sent to the East India Company"s Addiscombe Military Seminary, Croydon. In July 1858 he enrolled at Emmanuel College, Cambridge to study medicine and graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1861, Bachelor of Medicine in 1863, and Doctor of Medicine
After graduation in 1852 he served two years in the army as an officer in the East India Company in Bombay, but his military career ended in his erroneous diagnosis of aortic aneurysm. In 1857 he returned to the United Kingdom. in 1867. He then began practice in Street George"s Hospital, becoming medical registrar in 1863.
He left to be assistant-physician at the Westminster Hospital in 1868 and became full physician in 1875.
He was made assistant-physician to the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street in 1873, and full physician in 1884. At the time of his death he was senior physician there and at the Westminster Hospital.
He delivered the 1894 Lumleian Lectures on the subject of heart inflammation in children. He wrote a number of articles but he is best remembered for his two books The Natural History of Pneumonia (1876) and Chorea and Whooping Cough (1877)
He died in 1895 from injuries received when knocked down by a hansom cab and was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery.
The Westminster Hospital Br Medical J 1871;2:451.3 doi:10.1136/bmj.2.563.451-b
The Treatment of Pneumonia Br Medical J 1873;2:739.1 doi:10.1136/bmj.2.677.739
Out-Patients" Medical Relief Br Medical J 1875;1:495.1 doi:10.1136/bmj.1.745.495
Dissolution of the Medical Teachers" Association Br Medical J 1876;2:840.1 doi:10.1136/bmj.2.834.840
Is Collective Investigation Dangerous? Br Medical J 1884;1:483.2 doi:10.1136/bmj.1.1210.483-a
Collective Investigation Br Medical J 1884;2:1097.1 doi:10.1136/bmj.2.1247.1041
The Collective Investigation Committee Br Medical J 1884;2:985.1 doi:10.1136/bmj.2.1246.985
The Pathology of Acute Pneumonia Br Medical J 1885;1:99.1 doi:10.1136/bmj.1.1254.99
Pneumonic Fever, Old and New Br Medical J 1889;1:1030.2 doi:10.1136/bmj.1.1479.1030-a.
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He became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1863, and was elected Fellow in 1870.