M.D. Henry Lee

Henry Lee was an English surgeon, pathologist, and syphilologist born in 1817 in Berkshire. He studied first at King's College, London, then at St George's Hospital, where he became one of its early surgical registrars and later built a long hospital career.

In 1847 he joined the newly founded King's College Hospital as an assistant surgeon, and he also worked with the London Lock Hospital, where he developed the expertise that made him well known in the study and treatment of syphilis. He later returned to St George's Hospital, became a full surgeon there in 1863, and also served the Royal College of Surgeons for many years, winning the Jacksonian Prize and later delivering the Hunterian lectures.

He wrote widely for medical readers, including important work on practical pathology, syphilis, and venereal disease. Remembered by colleagues as a serious follower of John Hunter's approach to medicine, he died in London in 1898 after a long and influential career.