CLASSIC ARTICLE - THE MANAGEMENT OF AN ILEOSTOMY INCLUDING ITS COMPLICATIONS (REPRINTED FROM LANCET, VOL 2, PG 102-4, 1952)

Bryan Brooke graduated from Cambridge and St. Bartholomew's Hospital i n 1940, achieving his F.R.C.S. in 1942 and his Masters in Surgery in 1 944. After military service in the second world war, he was appointed senior lecturer in Aberdeen in 1946 and reader in surgery at the Unive rsity of Birmingham in 1947. In 1963, he was offered the Chair in Surg ery at St. George's Hospital in London, a position he occupied until 1 976. Many of Brooke's important writings were in the field of colon an d rectal surgery, including that of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's dis ease. In 1952, he proposed a signal advance in ileostomy construction, the subject for this Classic Article reproduction. In this paper, he suggested, ''A more simple device is to evaginate the ileal end at the time of operation and [to] suture the mucosa to the skin. . . .'' As a consequence of his unique contributions to the development of improv ed surgical techniques for stomal construction, he was motivated to be come founder and president of the Ileostomy Association of Great Brita in and Ireland, a post he held for 26 years. A recipient of many award s, Brooke was recognized by Corpus Christi College of Cambridge Univer sity through the Copeman Medal for scientific research. Additionally, he received the A.B. Graham Award of the American Proctologic Society (now the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons) in 1961 and is an honorary fellow of many international organizations. Brooke has be en described as an individual with a great zest for life, coupled with a wonderful sense of humor. He has held numerous one-man exhibitions of his paintings, many of which can be found at prominent public insti tutions throughout the world. Professor Brooke resides in London, reti red from the active practice of surgery, but not from painting or from writing.