William Morrant Baker

Biography

• Born 20 October 1839
• Died 3 October 1896

Key Medical Attributions:

• More about medical contributions

Medical Eponyms

• Baker’s cyst
• Baker’s cannula – a flexible tracheal cannula

Controversies

Sir D’Arcy Power (1855-1941) in 1921 demonstrated that the described ‘Baker’s cysts’ were really part of a tuberculous affection of joints, which had not previously been recognized by Baker. [Full Text]

Major Publications

• Baker WM. On the formation of synovial cysts in the leg in connection with disease of the knee-joint. 1877. [Reprint Clin Orthop Relat Res. 1994 Feb;(299):2-10.]
• Baker WM. Hand-book of physiology. New York : W. Wood 1893 [Full Archive Text]
• Baker WM. On the Use of Flexible Tracheotomy Tubes. Medico-chirurgical transactions. 1877;LX:71-84

References

• Obituary. William Morrant Baker, F.R.C.S. Br Med J 1896;2:1169
  
• Power D. ‘Baker’s cysts’, and Baker’s tracheotomy tubes. Br J Surg, 1921. 9: 200–203.
  
• South JF. Edited by Power D. Memorials of the craft of surgery in England. 1886. London: Cassell
• Mostofi SB. Who’s Who in Orthopedics. Springer; 2005 edition