Abiathar Wall

Abiathar Wall L.R.C.P. M.R.C.S. (1849 – 20 January 1914) was an English physician and anti-vivisection activist. He co-founded the National Anti-Vivisection Hospital and was amongst its first trustees.

Career

Wall was the son of Abiathar Brown Wall, a physician of Bayswater. He was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital and studied surgery at London Hospital. He also studied medicine at Edinburgh University. After he qualified he became an assistant to his father and took up an appointment in India where he resided for several years. Upon returning he settled at Thornton Avenue, Streatham Hill where he established his practice for 28 years. Wall was a member of the International Society for the Suppression of Vivisection. A review noted that the book presented "the case of the anti-vivisectionists clearly and strongly".

He was a speaker on anti-vivisection and attended meetings throughout the United Kingdom and at congresses in Paris and Zurich. His 1892 paper at the Nottingham anti-vivisection congress was reprinted and translated. He treated over 100 patients a week at the hospital without fee or reward.

Death

Wall died on 20 January 1914. Sidney Trist described Wall as "the gentlest of critics, most generous in his commendation, absolutely unselfish, of unchallengeable loyalty and full of the spirit of forgiveness".