George Thomas Beatson

Glasgow surgeon who, in a paper read to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh on 20 May 1896, described removing the ovaries of two women with inoperable or recurrent breast cancer, who showed tumour regression; a third patient, postmenopausal, received thyroid extract alone. His byline in the paper lists him as surgeon to the Glasgow Cancer Hospital and assistant surgeon at the Glasgow Western Infirmary.