FREDERIC W. D’EVELYN, M.B.C.M.

Frederick W. D’Evelyn, M.B.C.M., whose office is at No. 219 Geary Street, while but three years a resident and practitioner in San Francisco, has already become prominent in the ranks of the profession, and is to-day one of the surgeons solicited under the auspices of the Polyclinic to instruct the police of San Francisco in the best aid to the injured and the transportation of the wounded. Dr. D’Evelyn, having been thoroughly familiar with ambulance work while connected with the British army in the Zulu and Transvaal war, soon after his arrival in San Francisco interested himself and finally the authorities in the proper training of the police of this city in ambulance and stretcher drill. 

Dr. D’Evelyn was born in Antrim, in the north of Ireland, and his primary education was received in the local schools. Early in his career he commenced the study of medicine, and had already attained the rank of Licentiate of Pharmacy of the Pharmaceutical Society of Dublin, and had also become a Queen’s scholar in several subjects in the Science Department, London, England, when, hostilities breaking out in South Africa, he was attached to the field hospital service of the British army, and served through the Zulu and Transvaal campaigns. 

Returning from South Africa, he entered the University of Edinburgh, graduating after the usual course from that institution in 1886 as M. B. C. M. In this course he was quite successful, also taking the degree of Licentiate of Midwifery, and triple medallist in the following subjects: Practical Natural History, Materia Medica and Clinical Medicine. He also received first honors in physical diagnosis and diseases of women and children. Immediately after his graduation Dr. D’Evelyn was offered the post of Assistant Surgeon in the British service at the Falkland Islands. This position he did not accept, having already decided to settle and practice in California. He arrived in San Francisco in November, 1887, and has since that time been well known in the profession here. He now holds the post of Clinician in the University of California, also one of the staff of the Polyclinic of San Francisco, conducting the clinic for diseases of children, and is lecturer on physical diagnosis. He is a member of the State Medical Society, and of the San Francisco County Society. Dr. D’Evelyn has also devoted himself in his leisure moments to medical literature, several articles having been contributed by him to the medical journals of the coast. He was severely wounded in the discharge of his medical duties at the siege of Pretoria. He receives a pension from the British government, and received honorable mention for bravery before the enemy. 

Transcribed by Donna L. Becker 

Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 1, pages 513-514, Lewis Publishing Co., 1892.