Christo Beyers-Sy Tydgenote en Geskrifte

Abstract

After a brilliant career at the Old Victoria College, Stellenbosch, where he gained a B.A. in Zoology, Christo Beyers proceeded to St Bartholomew Hospital, London, to study Medicine in 1909. On his return to South Africa, he worked at Pretoria Hospital for a short while before returning to Great Britain to join the South African Field Ambulance and saw action in France. After the war he gained the F.R.C.S. before settling in Johannesburg, first as a general practitioner and later as a surgeon on the staff of the lohannesburg Hospital where he remained until his untimely death in 1933 at the early age of 45 years. During his active career, Beyers published 11 papers and translated 2 books into Afrikaans. His medical colleagues in Johannesburg honoured the memory of this great surgeon by naming the medical branch of the faculty of medicine of the South African Academy of Arts and Science after him.

S. Afr. Med. J., 48, 468 (1974)