Arthur Ernest Sansom

Sansom was educated at Queenwood College near Stockbridge, Hampshire and then at King's College, London.[2] He wrote one of the first and most practical handbooks on anaesthetics and read a paper Anaesthetics in Obstetric Practice before the Obstetrical Society. In 1869–1870 he emphasized the importance of Pasteur's research, together with some research of his own, in a series a papers he presented to the Medical Society of London. He was consulting physician to the London Hospital and to the North-Eastern Hospital for Children.[1] Sansom was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1878. He was President of the Medical Society of London for the year 1897.

In a number of his published Obituaries in 1907, the final sentence states that - ‘He was survived by his wife and six children’. This was incorrect, as at his death seven legitimate children survived him.

His burial was at East Finchley Cemetery.[3]

• Sansom, Arthur Ernest (1865). Chloroform: its action and administration. A handbook.
• Arrest and prevention of cholera. 1866.
• On the pain of parturition, and anæsthetics in obstetric practice. 1869.
• Sansom, Arthur Ernest (1871). The antiseptic system.
• The physical diagnosis of diseases of the heart and thoracic aorta. 1876.