Card of Admission to Principles and Practice of Surgery

by John Lizars to Mr. Feredrick J. Scott by John Lizars

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12mo. Chipped. Item #323256 Prof John Lizars FRSE 1792– 1860 was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist and medical author.He was Professor of surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and senior surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He performed the first ovariotomy in Scotland in 1825. One of his pupils was Erasmus Alvey Darwin, older brother of Charles Darwin, in 1826 when both brothers were at the

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