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}} Lennox Ross Broster, OBE (1889 – 12 April 1965) was a South African-born surgeon who spent most of his career as a consultant at Charing Cross Hospital, London. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I, for which he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. After the war he specialised in the treatment of endocrine disease and took a particular interest in congenital adrenal hyperplasia, leading him to devise a new technique for surgical removal of the adrenal gland. In the 1930s and 1940s Broster was among the first surgeons to operate routinely on intersex patients, in work that received frequent coverage in the British press and helped to establish Charing Cross Hospital as a centre for intersex and transgender medicine. His patients during this period included the Olympic athlete Mark Weston. Broster was a longtime member of the British Medical Association's Council and a chairman of the Commonwealth Medical Advisory Bureau's committee of management. With Raymond Greene, he was instrumental in the establishment of the Section of Endocrinology of the Royal Society of Medicine. ==Early life and war service== Broster was born in South Africa in 1889, the son of Charles John Broster. He was educated in Grahamstown, first at St. Andrew's College, then at Rhodes University College. In 1909 Broster received a Rhodes Scholarship and began studying medicine at Trinity College, Oxford. He continued his medical training at Guy's Hospital, graduating as Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1914.〔 During World War I Broster served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, initially with the 44th Field Ambulance and later as Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services for the Tank Corps.〔〔 He was made a Lieutenant on 10 February 1915, then promoted to Captain on 10 February 1916 and Major on 25 February 1918. On two occasions Broster was mentioned in dispatches. Broster relinquished his command on 11 February 1919. Broster was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1919 Birthday Honours. After the war, Broster completed his medical education. He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1919. In 1921 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 1922 he qualified as Master of Surgery.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lennox Broster」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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