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1ST BART SIR THOMAS SPENCER WELLS

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 514 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BART See also:SIR See also:THOMAS See also:SPENCER See also:WELLS  . (1818—1897), See also:English surgeon, was See also:born at St Albans on the 3rd of See also:February 1818, and received his medical See also:education in See also:Leeds, See also:Dublin and St See also:Thomas's See also:Hospital, See also:London (M.R.C.S . 1841) . From 1841 to 1848 he served as a surgeon in the See also:navy, and in 1848 he went to See also:Paris to study See also:pathology . In 1853 he settled in London, and took up ophthalmic See also:surgery, interrupting his See also:work to go out to the See also:East in the See also:Crimean See also:War . In 1854 he became surgeon to the Samaritan See also:Free Hospital for See also:Women and See also:Children, London . His reputation in surgery had obtained for him in 1844 the See also:fellow-See also:ship of the Royal See also:College of Surgeons, and he subsequently be-came a member of See also:council, Hunterian See also:professor of surgery and pathology (1878), See also:President (1882) and Hunterian Orator (1883) . In 1883 he was made a See also:baronet . His name is best known in connexion with his successful revival of the operation of See also:ovariotomy, which had fallen into disrepute owing to the excessive mortality attending it; and in his skilful hands, assisted by See also:modern surgical methods, the operation lost almost all its danger . His See also:book on Diseases of the Ovaries was published in 1865 . See also:Sir See also:Spencer See also:Wells married in 1853 See also:Miss See also:Elizabeth See also:Wright, and had a son and daughters . He died on the 31st of See also:January 1897 .

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estate at Golder's See also:Hill, . See also:Hampstead, was sold after his See also:death to the London See also:County Council and converted into a public See also:park .

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