Henry Hamilton Bailey

Henry Hamilton Bailey (1894 to 1961) was a British surgeon who became one of the most influential authors of surgical textbooks of the twentieth century, publishing under the name Hamilton Bailey. The son of a medical missionary, he volunteered as a medical student with the Belgian unit of the British Red Cross in 1914, was captured and later released, and from 1916 served as a temporary surgeon in the Royal Navy. After losing a finger to an infection contracted during an operation, he took his first independent post at Dudley Road Hospital in Birmingham and later joined the Royal Northern Hospital in London. He was a Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons. His Demonstrations of Physical Signs in Clinical Surgery, first published in 1927, was a pioneer in the use of illustrations and photographs in surgical textbooks and continued through many editions after his death in Malaga in 1961.