Hickman Medal
Catalog Record: Hickman Medal
Access Key: aikd
Accession No.: 1990-07-30-2 A
Title: Hickman medal : fourth award : Professor Ralph Milton Waters, April 1944 /
[designed by T.H. Paget].
Author: Paget, T. H. (Thomas Hugh).
Title variation: Alt Title
Title: Ralph Waters Hickman Medal.
Title variation: Alt Title
Title: Henry Hill Hickman : Pioneer Worker in Anesthesia 1800-1830.
Publisher: [London : Royal Society of Medicine : Llantrisant, South Wales : Royal Mint],
1944.
Physical Description: 1 medal : bronze ; 5.2 cm. dia.
Subject: Medals.
Subject: Awards and Prizes.
Subject: Memorabilia
Subject: Hickman, Henry Hill, 1800-1830.
Subject: Waters, Ralph Milton, 1883-1979.
Subject: Bas-reliefs.
Note Type: General
Notes: Title from medal’s case.
Note Type: With
Notes: With a velvet and satin lined leather case, 3 x 10 x 10 cm; Printed on case:
“Hickman Medal [new line] Fourth Award [new line] Professor Ralph Milton
Waters [new line] April 1944”.
Note Type: Citation
Notes: Editorial : The Hickman Medal. Anesthesiology. 1941;2(5):577.
Note Type: Citation
Notes: Hunting P. The History of the Royal Society of Medicine. London: Martin
Dunitz. 2001:306.
Note Type: Physical Description
Notes: On the front of the bronze medal is a bas-relief portrait of Henry Hill
Hickman with text below: “Henry Hill Hickman: Pioneer Worker in Anesthesia
1800-1830”; Back of medal has a bas-relief of 2 nude humans with broken
chains and a robed women standing between them; with text: “Anaesthesia
Vitrix Dorlorum”; They represent the Goddess Anesthesia freeing humans from
pain.
Note Type: Reproduction
Notes: Photographed by Mr. William Lyle July 13, 2010.
Note Type: Acquisition
Notes: Donated to the WLM by Darwin Waters.
Note Type: Historical
Notes: The Hickman Medal was founded in 1931 by the Royal Society of Medicine;
Awarded no more than every 3 years by the Council of the Royal Society of
Medicine on the recommendations of the Council of the Section of
Anaesthetics; Awarded to individuals for original work of outstanding merit
in anesthesia (Anesthesiology, 1941; Hunting, 2001).