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See also:CLAY, See also:CHARLES (1801–1893) , See also:English surgeon, was See also:born at Bredbury, near See also:Stockport, on the 27th of See also:December 18o1. He began his medical See also:education as a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of Kinder See also:Wood in See also:Manchester (where he used to attend See also:John See also:Dalton's lectures on See also:chemistry), and in 1821 went to See also:Edinburgh to continue his studies there. Qualifying in 1823, he began. a See also:general practice in See also:Ashton-under-Lyne, but in 1839 removed to Manchester to practise as an operative and consulting surgeon. It was there that, in 1842, he first performed the operation of See also:ovariotomy with which his name is associated. On this occasion it wasperfectly successful, and when in 1865 he published an See also:analysis of 111 cases he was able to show a mortality only slightly above 30%. Although his merits in this See also:matter have sometimes been denied, his claim to the See also:title " See also:Father of Ovariotomy " is now generally conceded, and it is admittted that he deserves the See also:credit not only of having shown how that operation could be made a success, but also of having played an important See also:part in the advance of abdominal See also:surgery for which the 19th See also:century was conspicuous. In spite of the claims of a heavy practice, Clay found See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time for the pursuit of See also:geology and See also:archaeology. Among the books of which he was the author were a See also:volume of See also:Geological Sketches of Manchester (1839) and a See also:History of the Currency of the Isle of See also:Man (1849), and his collections included over a thousand See also:editions of the Old and New Testaments and a remarkably See also:complete See also:series of the See also:silver and See also:copper coins of the See also:United States. He died at Poulton-le-Fylde, near See also:Preston, on the 19th of See also:September 1893.
End of Article: CLAY, CHARLES (1801–1893)
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