Consultant physician and Medical Research Council staff member
University College and Central Middlesex Hospitals 1962-84 (b
London 1920; q Michigan 1943, London 1944; MA, MD, FRCP), died from
mesothelioma on 16 October 2001.
David did national service at the Institute of Aviation Medicine, Farnborough, where he designed and patented ear defenders. He then joined the Medical Research Council and devised the method of measuring skin-fold thickness using calipers. Becoming interested in the gut, he devised what we would now call oesophageal manometry. He became a world expert on radiology of the upper gastrointestinal tract. David wrote one of the first booklets on contraception for Which? magazine. In retirement, he took up sculpture and adorned his living room with beautiful wooden female torsos. He leaves a wife, Joan, and three children.
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