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Emeritus Consultants Biographies
Gerald Moss was born in 1901. He graduated from Melbourne University in 1925 and joined the staff of the Royal Perth Hospital in 1938. Apart from four years in the RAAMC in the Middle East during the Second World War, emerging with the rank of Lt. Colonel, he served the Royal Perth Hospital continuously from 1938 to 1955. Dr Moss was a distinguished physician and he was the first to foster Clinical Neurology in Western Australia. When a Neurosurgical Unit was established in 1949 by James Ainslie, Gerald Moss was its Honorary Senior Neurologist in addition to his post of Honorary Senior Physician. In 1955 he resigned from these posts and left private consultant practice to become Neurologist to the Mental Health Services. His flair for Neurology was recognised when he was invited to become a foundation member of the Australian Association of Neurologists and elected to serve on its Council. He was a skilled mimic of neurological movement disorders and of gait disturbances and in discussing such problems in the ward or even in the car park he might, totally engrossed and unselfconscious, suddenly turn on a demonstration, often with a predictable impact on his listeners and bog-eyed bystanders. One had to know Gerald Moss to realise there was nothing clownish about this for he would be utterly serious. His kindness, courtesy and his charity were absolute. He was a man who never scored at anyone else's expense. He was a natural scholar with a love of words, the classics and languages. In 1960 following part time study at the University of Western Australia he graduated Bachelor of Arts with first class honours in Greek. In 1971 he was made an Emeritus Member of the Australian Association of Neurologists. He was fortunate in the enjoyment of family life with his wife Peggy and their three children. Their home was always a quiet haven for visitors. Gerald Moss died in 1972. |
