Louis David COHEN   
MRCS LRCP FRCS (Edin)
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Born Palmerston North 1887    Died Wellington 26.09.1946

MRCS LRCP 1913, FRCS (Edin) 1919

Medical training and Resident appointments at London Hospital

WW1 service with the "old contemptibles" in France, and in Palestine
Postgraduate studies in England & 6 months in India, studying eye diseases
Returned to NZ in 1920

Honorary Visiting Surgeon, Eye Ear Nose and Throat Department, Wellington Hospital 1920 - 1936
Specialised in Ophthalmic surgery, but obituary notes that he made his own bronchoscopes at home in his workshop.

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Obituary: NZMJ 1946 45:571

photograph courtesy
J O Mercer collection
Wellington Hospital