Frederic Wood Jones: his illnesses

As an inveterate sea traveller Wood Jones never conquered seasickness. An attack of appendix in 1910 is also described. Following another attack in 1913 his appendix was removed. Within 24 h of surgery he was laid low by gout. Gout struck again in 1949. There followed two papers on his disease. In 1920 he confessed that he had had 'lumbago' and sciatica for a long while. He was admitted to Westminster Hospital on 23 March 1954 and died in the same hospital on 29 September of that year.