James Augustus Rooth

Dr James Augustus Rooth

Dr James Augustus Rooth (1868–1962) was a colonel of the Royal Army Medical Corps, a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and house surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Born in London, the son of John Wilcoxon Rooth, Barrister-at-law (1835–1874), and Elizabeth (1825–1917), daughter of Henry Smith of Bristol. Educated at Highgate School and University College University of Oxford where he read history (BA 1890)[1] he was the doctor in charge of the delivery of Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins born in Brighton in 1908 and the first to live to adulthood. He provided a medical account of them for the British Medical Journal in 1911.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Foster, Joseph, Oxford Men and their Colleges 1880–1892, J Parker Oxford, 1893.
  2. ↑ Rooth, James A. (23 September 1911). "The Brighton Conjoined Twins". British Medical Journal. 2 (2647): 653–654. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.2647.653. PMC 2332195Freely accessible. PMID 20765808.


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