Was born at Leeds about 1792, the son of a solicitor. His parents died when he was young and he was brought up by the kindness of a sister. He was apprenticed at first to Mr Braithwaite, a Quaker surgeon, who was the proprietor of the preparation of opium known as 'the Black Drop' (*see* LAWRENCE, S

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital and practised at 11 King Street, Gloucester, where he was Surgeon to the Gloucester Infirmary, and died there on May 23rd, 1867.

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and practised at Canterbury, where he was Surgeon to the County Orphan School and to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. He died on January 4th, 1882.

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital and in Edinburgh. He was at first in general practice at Wardwick, Derbyshire, where he was Surgeon to the Derbyshire Infirmary and to the County and Borough Prisons in 1847. He practised in 1851 at 98 Friar Gate, Derby, and was then Senior Surgeon to the Infirm

The son of James Long, a Lancashire merchant. He was probably born at Poulton, and was apprenticed to Mr Halton, a Surgeon to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary. To the apprenticeship system Long used often to attribute that thorough grasp of practical detail in medicine and surgery on which his success

Educated at the Windmill Street School and at St George's Hospital. He very early showed himself to be an accomplished anatomist and a skilful surgeon, but when he applied (1834) for an appointment as Assistant Surgeon at his old hospital he was rejected after a very severe contest, in favour of Edw

Was at one time Senior Surgeon of the Metropolitan Free Hospital, Lecturer on the Principles and Practice of Surgery at the Hunterian School of Medicine, and President of the Harveian Society, 1843-1844. In the eventful year of railway speculation Lucas became a victim to the prevailing mania, and t

Born on April 30th, 1801, the son of Jeremiah Pilcher, of Winkfield, Berkshire. He began to practise in Dean Street, Soho, as soon as he had qualified, and was appointed Lecturer on Anatomy, Physiology, and Surgery at the Webb Street School of Medicine in Snow's Fields, then belonging to his brother

The eldest surving son of Hall Overend, who practised in Sheffield. He was born in May, 1806, and was educated at the Sheffield Grammar School. He then entered the united hospitals of Guy's and St Thomas's and was afterwards sent to Edinburgh. A prospectus of a School of Anatomy and Surgery was issu

Was Surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital, and practised in Old Broad Street, EC, where he died on April 22nd, 1846. Publications:- In the *Lancet*, 1846, I, 276, Eccles reported a case of ovarian dropsy treated according to the method of Isaac B Brown (qv), Consulting Accoucheur to the Paddington Lyi

The son of an Irish country surgeon who had been a pupil of John Abernethy. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in October, 1816, and was for twenty years Surgeon to the Finsbury Dispensary, and temporarily to the Fever Hospital. He was also Consulting Surgeon to St Anne's Society Schools and to th

Practised in Edinburgh, and later lived in London, apparently out of practice, at 3 Addison Crescent, Kensington, where he died in 1877 or 1878.