Quain

Quain, a family of eminent medical men. (1) JONES QUAIN, born in November 1796, at Mallow in Ireland, studied medicine at Dublin and Paris, and in 1829 was appointed lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology in the Aldersgate School of Medicine, London. Two years later he was made professor of Anatomy and Physiology at London University, and held that post until 1836. He died in London on 27th January 1865. That well-known students' text-book, Quain's Elements of Anatomy, was originally written by him; the first edition appeared in 1828, the tenth in 1890. Jones Quain published also a series of elaborate Anatomical Plates (1858) and a translation of Martinet's Pathology (1835).—(2) RICHARD QUAIN, brother of the above, was born at Fermoy, Ireland, in July 1800, studied at London, and was appointed professor of Anatomy and Clinical Surgery in University College, London, in 1837. He was likewise appointed surgeon-extraordinary to the Queen, and was elected president of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1868. He died in London on 15th September 1887. Amongst his works the principal are Anatomy of Arteries, with folio plates (1845), Diseases of the Rectum (1854), Observations on Medical Education (1865), Some Defects of Medical Education (1870), and articles on Dislocations of the Hip and the Knee; he edited along with others the fifth edition of (Jones) Quain's Anatomy. By his will he left nearly £75,000 to University College, London, for the 'education in modern languages (especially English) and in natural science.'—(3) SIR RICHARD QUAIN, Bart., first cousin to both the above, was born at Mallow on 30th October 1816. He was Lumleian lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians (Diseases of the Muscular Walls of the Heart) in 1872, and Harveian Orator (The Healing Art in its Historic and Prophetic Aspects) in 1885, and was made physician-extraordinary to the Queen. He edited the Dictionary of Medicine (1882; 2d edition, 1894), and contributed to the Trans. of the Med. and Chirurg. Soc., the Lond. Jour. of Medicine, &c. Dr Quain was made LL.D. of Edinburgh in 1889, president of the General Medical Council in 1891, was created a baronet in 1891, and died 13th March 1898.—(4) SIR JOHN RICHARD QUAIN, born at Mallow in 1817, the half-brother of Jones and Richard Quain, was made a judge of the Court of Queen's Bench in 1872, and justice of the High Court of Judicature in 1875. He died 12th September 1876. Along with H. Holroyd he published The New System of Common Law Procedure (1852).