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See also:SIR See also:PRESCOTT See also:GARDNER See also:HEWETT , See also:Bart . (1812-1891), See also:British surgeon, was See also:born on the 3rd of See also:July 1812, being the son of a See also:Yorkshire See also:country See also:gentleman . He lived for some years in See also:early See also:life in See also:Paris, and started on a career as an artist, but abandoned it for See also:surgery . He entered St See also:George's See also:Hospital, See also:London (where his See also:half-See also:brother, Dr See also:Cornwallis See also:Hewett, was physician from 1825 to 1833) becoming demonstrator of See also:anatomy and See also:curator of the museum . He was the See also:pupil and intimate friend of See also:Sir B . C . See also:Brodie, and helped him in much of his See also:work . Eventually he See also:rose to be anatomical lecturer, assistant-surgeon and surgeon to the hospital . In 1876 he was See also:president of the See also:College of Surgeons; in 1877 he was made See also:serjeant-surgeon extraordinary to See also:Queen See also:Victoria, in 1884 serjeant-surgeon, and in 1883 he was created a See also:baronet . He was a very See also:good lecturer, but shrank from authorship; his lectures on Surgical Affections of the See also:Head were, however, embodied in his See also:treatise on the subject in See also:Holmes's See also:System of Surgery . As a surgeon he was always extremely conservative, but hesitated at no operation, however severe, when convinced of its expediency . He was a perfect operator, and one of the most trustworthy of counsellors . He died on the 19th of See also:June 1891 . |
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