Bramwell, Byrom (1847-1931)

English physician. He made his reputation in the fields of neurology, diseases of the cardiovascular system and the blood, and in endocrinology. He was appointed pathologist to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in 1882, assistant physician in 1885, and physician in 1897.

He was made president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1910 and was knighted in 1924.

Bramwell was born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, and was educated at Cheltenham College, Edinburgh, and Paris. He assisted his father in practice and in 1872 was appointed lecturer in medical jurisprudence at Durham College of Medicine, Newcastle. He began to practise as a consultant in Newcastle in 1874 but moved to Edinburgh in 1879.

His publications include Diseases of the Spinal Cord (1882), Diseases of the Heart and Thoracic Aorta (1884), Intracranial Tumours (1888), Anaemia and Diseases of the Blood-Forming Organs (1899), Atlas of Clinical Medicine (1892-96), and Clinical Studies (1902-10).