biography
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| lived:
| (1768–1841)
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| biography:
| Surgeon, born in Brooke, Norfolk, E England, UK. After studying in London and Edinburgh, he lectured on anatomy at St Thomas's Hospital (1789) and at the College of Surgeons (1793). In 1800 he became surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and in 1813 professor of comparative anatomy in the College of Surgeons. He raised surgery from its primitive state to a science, and was the first man to tie the abdominal aorta in treating an aneurysm. In 1820 he removed a tumour from the head of King George IV, and was made a baronet, and in 1828 was appointed sergeant-surgeon to the king. |
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