Born on September 18th, 1811, at Gibraltar, where his father, a military officer, was stationed. He used to say that for recurring fits when a younger man he had been bled from the arm twenty-five times in the course of a year, besides having some four dozen leeches applied, and had yet continued st

Practised at Nottingham, where he was surgeon to the General Hospital, and having become Consulting Surgeon, his opinion continued to be highly and deservedly valued throughout the Midland Counties. He died at 40 Pelham Street Nottingham, on January 7th 1868.

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and later held various posts - Surgeon to the Foundling Hospital and to St Marylebone Infirmary; Secretary to the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society; and Medical Inspector of Prisons. He was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. He lived at 12 Westbourne Str

Studied medicine at the Bristol Infirmary under Henry Daniel, and matriculated at the London University, being one of the earliest students on the University roll. He gained the Gold Medal for Surgery and the Silver Medal for Anatomy and Physiology. In 1829 he went to Paris, and returned upon the ou

Born in Scotland early in the nineteenth century, studied at Edinburgh University, and settling in London soon acquired a large practice. He became Surgeon to the Westminster General Dispensary, and lectured on pathology and pathological anatomy at the North London Medical School. Later he was Surge

Born at Cropredy, Oxfordshire, the third son of Egerton Stafford, Rector of Chacombe and of Thenford in Northamptonshire, and through his mother was of kin to William of Wykeham. He was educated privately at Tamworth and apprenticed to two noted practitioners of Cirencester, William Lawrence, father

Born in Fermoy, Co. Cork, in July, 1800, the third son of Richard Quain, of Ratheahy, Co. Cork, by his first wife - a Miss Jones. Jones Quain (1796-1865), the anatomist, was his full brother, and Sir John Richard Quain (1816-1876), Judge of the Queen's Bench, was his half-brother. Sir Richard Quain,

Received his professional training at St George’s Hospital. He practised at Salisbury, where he was Surgeon to the Infirmary from 1804-1847. He died at Salisbury on April 6th, 1848. Another Henry Coates seems to have been entered as six-months’ pupil to Benjamin Brodie at St George’s in August, 18

Born on July 18th, 1776, the eldest son of the Rev Robert Pitcairn, of Brasenose College, Oxford, Vicar of English Combe, Somerset, and Incumbent of Spring Chapel, London. The family originated in Pitcairn, Fifeshire, and to it belonged the two well-known physicians – William Pitcairn, MD (1711-1791

Born at Coventry on March 29th, 1780; was educated at King Edward’s Grammar School. He was then apprenticed to George Freer, of Birmingham, the author of *Aneurysm and some Diseases of the Arterial System* (1807), who evidently inspired his pupils with higher aims that the mere routine of practice,

Born on Sept 9th, 1780, at Kessingland, a village on the Suffolk coast, where his father occupied a large farm. His mother, who was a daughter of the Rev J Henchman, died while he was an infant, and he was placed in charge of his uncle by marriage, the Rev W Clubbe, Vicar of Brandeston. Mr Clubbe, a

Born in Tavistock Place, London, on Jan. 1st, 1811, the son of Daniel Curling, F.S.A., Secretary to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs, and Elizabeth, daughter of William Blizard and sister of Sir William Blizard. He was educated at The Manor House, Chiswick, and was afterwards apprenticed t