Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement/Roose, Edward Charles Robson

1555625Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, Volume 3 — Roose, Edward Charles Robson1912D'Arcy Power

ROOSE, EDWARD CHARLES ROBSON (1848–1905), physician, born at 32 Hill Street, Knightsbridge, London, on 23 Nov. 1848, was grandson of Sir David Charles Roose, and was third son of Francis Finley Roose, solicitor, by his wife Eliza Burn. He entered at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, but left the university without a degree. He then went to Guy's Hospital, London, and afterwards spent some time in Paris. He obtained the licence of the Society of Apothecaries in 1870, and in the same year he was admitted L.R.C.P. and L.R.C.S. Edinburgh. In 1872 he became M.R.C.S. England; M.R.C.P. Edinburgh in 1875, and F.R.C.P. Edinburgh in 1877. He graduated M.D. at Brussels in 1877.

Roose first practised at 44 Regency Square, Brighton. In 1885 he migrated to 49 Hill Street, Berkeley Square, London. Here he built up a large and fashionable practice, which his medical attainments hardly justified. He owed his professional success to his social popularity. Later in life he became director of a company interested in Kent coal which involved him in litigation. He emerged from it honourably, but the anxiety led him to limit his professional work, and he retired to East Grinstead, Sussex, where he died on 12 Feb. 1905.

He married in 1870 Edith, daughter of Henry Huggins, D.L.; she died in 1901. Roose published the following compilations, which, in spite of a wide circulation, had no genuine scientific value: 1. 'Remarks upon some Disease of the Nervous System,' Brighton, 1875. 2. 'Gout and its Relations to Diseases of the Liver and Kidneys,' 1885; 7th edit. 1894; translated into French from the third edition, Paris, 1887; and into German from the fourth edition, Vienna and Leipzig, 1887. 3. 'The Wear and Tear of London Life,' 1886. 4. 'Infection and Disinfection,' 1888. 5 'Nerve Prostration and other Functional Disorders of Daily Life,' 1888; 2nd edit. 1891. 6. 'Leprosy and its Prevention as illustrated by Norwegian Experience,' 1890. 7. 'Waste and Repair in Modern Life,' 1897.

[The Times, 13 Feb. 1905; Medical News, New York, 1905, vol. 86, p. 418.]

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