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CAESAR HENRY HAWKINS (1798-1884)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 98 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAESAR See also:HENRY See also:HAWKINS (1798-1884)  , See also:British surgeon, son of the Rev . E . See also:Hawkins and See also:grandson of the See also:Sir See also:Caesar Hawkins (1711-1786), who was See also:serjeant-surgeon to See also:Kings See also:George II. and George III., was See also:born at See also:Bisley, See also:Gloucestershire, on the 19th of See also:September 1798, was educated at See also:Christ's See also:Hospital, and entered St George's Hospital, See also:London, in 1818 . He was surgeon to the hospital from 1829 to 1861, and in 1862 was made serjeant-surgeon to See also:Queen See also:Victoria . He was See also:president of the See also:College of Surgeons in 1852, and again in 1861; and he delivered the Hunterian oration in 1849 . His success in complex surgical cases gave him a See also:great reputation . For See also:long he was noted as the only surgeon who had succeeded in the operation of See also:ovariotomy in a London hospital . This occurred in 1846, when anaesthetics were unknown . He did much to popularize colotomy . A successful operator, he nevertheless was attached to conservative See also:surgery, and was always more anxious to See also:teach his pupils how to See also:save a See also:limb than how to remove it . He re-printed his contributions to the medical See also:journals in two volumes, 1874, the more valuable papers being on Tumours, Excision of the Ovarium, See also:Hydrophobia and Snake-bites, Stricture of the See also:Colon, and The Relative Claims of Sir See also:Charles See also:Bell and Magendie to the See also:Discovery of the Functions of the See also:Spinal Nerves . He died on the 20th of See also:July 1884 .

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brother, See also:Edward Hawkins (1789-1882), was the well-known See also:provost of See also:Oriel, See also:Oxford, who played so great a See also:part in the Tractarian See also:movement .

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