David Bayford Explained

David Bayford
Occupation:Surgeon and physician
Known For:Dysphagia lusoria
Birth Date:1739

David Bayford, FRS (c.1739 – 1790) was a London surgeon, who practised from 1761 to 1782. In later years of his life he practised as a physician.[1]

Career

He was born in Hertfordshire and educated as a surgeon. He became a member of the Corporation of Surgeons, and practised as such for some years at Lewes, Sussex.[2]

In 1761, while still an apprentice surgeon, he made his discovery of the unique and bizarre cause—compression of the oesophagus by an aberrant right subclavian artery—of a fatal case of obstructed deglutition for which he coined the term dysphagia lusoria and for which he is eponymously remembered. This discovery remained unrecorded until 1787, when a paper describing the case was read on his behalf before the Medical Society of London.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1770, when he was described as a Professor of Anatomy at Surgeon's Hall; and many years Lecturer in that Science and the Operations of Surgery.[3]

He was created MD by Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1782. Later disbarred as a surgeon, he was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians in 1787.[2]

Notes and References

  1. 369446 . 2494476 . 61 . 1 . David Bayford. His syndrome and sign of dysphagia lusoria . January 1979 . 63–7. Asherson . N. . Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England .
  2. Web site: David Bayford. Royal College of Surgeons. 17 January 2017.
  3. Web site: Fellows Details. Royal Society. 17 January 2017.