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P. J. L. Holt, Jonas Henrik Kellgren 1911–2002, Rheumatology, Volume 42, Issue 5, May 2003, Pages 708–709, https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keg203
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Jonas Henrik Kellgren was the son of a Swedish father and Russian mother. He qualified from University College Medical School, London in 1934 and his early career was at this hospital as a research fellow with Sir Thomas Lewis. During this period he obtained both the MRCP and FRCS and published his seminal works on referred pain. The main points he made are relevant today, although he maintained, with some justification, that few people had really studied the principles he set out.
The onset of the Second World War interrupted his studies and he became a surgeon, initially at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital and later in the Royal Army Medical Corps, where he obtained the rank of major and served both in North Africa and in the Italian campaign. After the war he joined the MRC staff at the Winfield Morris Orthopaedic Hospital in Oxford to continue his studies, now on peripheral nerve injuries.
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