biography
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1833–91)
|
| biography:
| Orthopaedic surgeon, born in Anglesey, NW Wales, UK. He studied medicine at London, Edinburgh, and Paris, and practised surgery in Liverpool. He pioneered orthopaedic surgery, constructing many appliances which are still used, notably Thomas' splints for the hip and the knee. |
|
|
