biography
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Pickering, Sir George
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| male
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| lived:
| (1904–80)
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| biography:
| Clinician who pioneered the study of blood pressure, born in Whalton, Northumberland, NE England, UK. He studied at Cambridge and St Thomas', then with Sir Thomas Lewis at University College Hospital in London, where Lewis infused in him a love of clinical research. He worked at St Mary's Hospital and, from 1956, as professor of medicine at Oxford. He did important experimental work on the mechanism of pain in peptic ulcer, and on the physiological causes and epidemiology of high blood pressure in human populations. |
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