James Radclyffe McDonagh

James Eustace Radclyffe McDonagh FRCS (17 October 1881 – 14 February 1965) was a British surgeon and medical writer.

Biography

McDonagh was born on 17 October 1881 in London. He was educated at Bedford School and at the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital. He qualified M.R.C.S and L.R.C.P. in 1906 and passed F.R.C.S. in 1909. McDonagh prescribed his patients colon cleansing and a vegetarian diet. He treated Aldous Huxley.

The Nature of Disease Institute published their first report in 1948. McDonagh and his institute proposed a "unitary theory of disease" which was not accepted by the medical community. One review suggested that his theory was ill-defined, implausible and was an example of eccentric literature.

Publications

Textbook on Venereal Diseases, 1915 and 1920 Venereal Diseases: Their Clinical Aspect and Treatment, 1920 The Nature of Disease (three volumes), 1924–1927–1931 The Nature of Disease (The British Medical Journal), 1929 The Nature of Disease Journal (three volumes), 1932–1934 The Common Cold and Influenza, 1936 The Universe Through Medicine, 1940 The Nature of Disease To Date, 1946 The Nature of Disease Institute's First, Second and Third Annual Reports, 1948, 1949 and 1951 The Universe in the Making, 1948 A Further Study in the Nature of Disease, 1954 A Final Study in the Nature of Disease, 1959 The Nature of the Universe, Health and Disease, 1963 Protein: The Basis of All Life, 1966.