page_title: John Hancock (venereologist)
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: John Hancock (venereologist) / Early life
caption_attribution_description: Group photograph of all London medical students who went to Belsen following its liberation by the Allies. Archives &amp; Manuscripts Keywords: belsen concentration camp; Allen Percival Prior; Bergen-Belsen
context_page_description: John Arthur Harland Hancock was a British venereologist and editor of the British Journal of Venereal Diseases who wrote on non-gonococcal urethritis and reactive arthritis, what was known as Reiter's disease at the time. In 1945, while studying medicine at the London Hospital, he was one of the voluntary students sent to Belsen to assist nutritionist Arnold Peter Meiklejohn in feeding the starving inmates. There, he became unwell with typhus and was treated back at The London by Lord Evans.
  Following his recovery, he completed his medical studies and gained his medical degree in 1948. Subsequently, he began a career in dermatology, first as a house officer to the dermatology department and then with his National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps, becoming officer-in-charge of the dermatology department at the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot and later in a post of Acting Adviser in dermatology to the War Office. Later, he pursued a career in venereology.
context_section_description: John Hancock was born in 1923. In 1945, while studying medicine at the London Hospital, he was one of the voluntary students sent to Belsen to assist nutritionist Arnold Peter Meiklejohn in feeding the starving inmates. Here, he became unwell with typhus and was treated back at the London Hospital by Lord Evans.
caption: Group photo of London Medical students who went to Belsen
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