JOHN

See also:

• MARSHALL
• MARSHALL, ALFRED (1842– )
• MARSHALL, JOHN (1755–1835)
• JOHN MARSHALL (1818-1891)
• MARSHALL, STEPHEN (c. 1594-1655)

MARSHALL (1818-1891)  , British surgeon and physiologist, was born at Ely, on the 11th of September 1818, his father being a lawyer of that city . He entered University College, London, in 1838, and in 1847 he was appointed assistant-surgeon at the hospital, becoming in 1866 surgeon and professor of surgery . He was professor of anatomy at the Royal Academy from 1873 till his death . In 1883 he was president of the College of Surgeons, also Bradshaw lecturer (on " Nerve-stretching for the relief or cure of pain "), Hunterian orator in 1885, and Morton lecturer in 1889 . In 1867 he published his well-known textbook The Outlines of Physiology in two volumes . He died on the 1st of January 1891 . " Marshall's fame," wrote Sir W . MacCormac in his volume on the Centenary of the College of Surgeons (1900), " rests on the great ability with which he taught anatomy in relation to art, on the introduction into modern surgery of the galvano-cautery, and on the operation for the excision of varicose veins . He was one of the first to show that cholera might be spread by means of drinking water, and issued a report on the outbreak of cholera in Broad Street, St James's, 1854 .