Background
ABRAHAM, Phineas S. was born in Falmouth. Son of late Phineas Abraham, Justice of the Peace, formerly of that island.
ABRAHAM, Phineas S. was born in Falmouth. Son of late Phineas Abraham, Justice of the Peace, formerly of that island.
Studied at University College, London (First Honours, Bachelor of Science). Royal College of Science, Dublin (Royal Exhibitioner and Prizeman). Trinity College, Dublin (First Senior Moderator and Large Gold Medallist in Natural Science, Erasmus Smith Scholar, and Master of Arts Stipend Conference
Honourable Causa).
Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital. Ecole de Medicine, Paris. Clausthal in Germany.
Master of Arts.
Doctor of Medicine.
After leaving College, qualified as a chemical and mining engineer Entered at Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital, 1876, obtaining the Science Exhibition and the 1st i Scholarship of the year. Curator of the Museums of the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, 1879, and subsequently elected a Member of the Court of Examiners.
Lecturer on Physiology and Histology at the Westminster Hospital Medical School, 1885.
Medical Secretary of the National Leprosy Fund, 1889. Was requested by the Government to represent this country at the International Lepra Conference in Berlin, 1897.
Was one of the princijjal founders of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Ireland, and of the Dermatological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. President West. London Medico-Chirurgical Society, 1910-1911.
President Derm. Section, British Medical Association London Meeting, 1910.
Ex-President, Irish Medical Schools and Graduates’ Associate. Fellow Royal Society of Medicine. Bachelor of Science, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.I.
Associate Royal College of Science, Ireland. Surgeon in charge of the Skin Department at the West London Hospital. Lecturer on Dermatology to the West London Post Graduate College.
Clubs: Savage, Royal Automobile, New Vagabonds’, Wigwam.