George Moore (physician)

Dr. George Moore MD (1803–1880) was a physician and British Israelite.

After attending Abernethy's lectures and surgical practice at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, he studied anatomy in Paris in company with Erasmus Wilson, and attended Dupuytren's practice. In 1829, he became M.R.C.S. England, in 1830 L.S.A., in 1841 M.D. St. Andrews, in 1843 ext. L.R.C.P., and in 1859 M.R.C.P.

He settled first at Camberwell, near London, where he practiced successfully for eight years. In March 1835, he obtained the Fothergillian gold medal for his essay on puerperal fever, which was favourably reviewed in the British and Foreign Medical Review (ii. 481). In 1838, his health broke down, and he moved to Hastings, where he remained for ten years. During part of this time he was physician to the Hastings Dispensary, with his friend Dr. James Mackness as a colleague.

He published successful books on homely philosophy and quasi-psychology, becoming the Dr Spock of Victorian England by publishing in 1872 The training of young children on Christian and natural principles, which covered everything from nursery health to training for school and marriage.

After reading John Wilson's Our Israelitish Origin (1840) Moore became an early proponent of British Israelism. In 1861 he published The Lost Tribes and the Saxons of the East and of the West with new Views of Buddhism, and Translations of Rock-Records in India, which was one of the earlier works on British Israelism, alongside John Wilson's and Charles Piazzi Smyth's works. Moore in his work was the first to propose that Gautama Buddha was an Israelite, an idiosyncratic view not held by many other British Israelites at the time.

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