A Japanese Artist in the West London Hospital (1907): Yoshio Markino in London (1897–1942)

1 Shigemitsu M . Japan and Her Destiny: My Struggle for Peace, trans. White O , ed. FSG Piggot. London: Hutchinson, 1958.

2 The wounds would be “powdered with iodoform” and lightly stuffed with oiled lint or gauze soaked in iodoform and glycerine. Rose W Carless A . Manual of Surgery for Students and Practitioners. London, 1899: 992.

3 For example. Hurst AF . Constipation and Allied Medical Disorders. London 1919: 342. Or hamamelis ointment: Rose W, Carless A. Manual of Surgery for Students and Practitioners. London, 1899: 1004. Also consulted: The anal canal and rectum. In Bailey and Love's Short Practice of Surgery, 15thedn. London, 1972: 1012, which gives 3–6 weeks for healing after haemorrhoidectomy; patients could normally leave hospital after 10–14 days (barring complications).

4 Emerson CP Brown NG Essentials of Medicine. A Text-Book of Medicine for Students Beginning a Medical Course, for Nurses, and for Others Interested in the Care of the Sick. London: Lippincott, 1929: 212.

5 See Baldwin's obituary. BMJ, 14 April 1945: 537.

6 See Norburg LEC . Gordon-Watson and St. Marks. Ann R Coll Surg Engl 1960; 27: 84. Reports of papers given by Baldwin on a variety of surgical topics appear in issues of The Lancet, e.g. 1908 (163), 1909 (40), 1920 (1057).