Birch, William (1801 - 1869)
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Royal College of Surgeons of England

Asset Name
E000880 - Birch, William (1801 - 1869)

Title
Birch, William (1801 - 1869)

Author
Royal College of Surgeons of England

Identifier
RCS: E000880

Publisher
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England

Publication Date
2010-03-04

Subject
Medical Obituaries

Description
Obituary for Birch, William (1801 - 1869), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Language
English

Source
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows

Full Name
Birch, William

Date of Birth
1801

Date of Death
3 October 1869

Occupation
General surgeon

Titles/Qualifications
MRCS September 5th 1823
 
FRCS (by election) Aug 26th 1844

Details
Was at one time, before 1827, Lecturer on Midwifery at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and Surgeon to the Finsbury Midwifery Institution. He was practising at Barton-under-Needwood near Lichfield in 1837, and died there on October 3rd, 1869. He was a member of the Medical and Physical Society at Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of London. Publications:- “History of Two Cases of Laceration of the Uterus during Labour, after which one of the Women Survived nearly Eight Weeks, the Other Perfectly Recovered.” – *Med.-Chir. Soc. Trans.*, 1827, xiii, 357. The subsequent history of the woman who recovered appears in the *Med.-Chir. Soc. Trans.*, 1837, xx, 374.

Rights
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England

Collection
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows

Format
Obituary

Format
Asset

Asset Path
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E000000-E000999/E000800-E000899

URL for File
373063

Media Type
Unknown