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See also:FERGUSSON, See also:SIR See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM , See also:Bart. (1808–1877), See also:British surgeon, the son of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Fergusson of Lochmaben, See also:Dumfries-See also:shire, was See also:born at See also:Prestonpans, See also:East See also:Lothian, on the loth of See also:March 18o8. After receiving his See also:early See also:education at Lochmaben and the high school of See also:Edinburgh, he entered the university of Edinburgh with the view of studying See also:law, but soon after-wards abandoned his intention and became 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 the anatomist See also:Robert See also:Knox (1791–1862) whose demonstrator he was
appointed at the See also:age of twenty. In 1836 he succeeded Robert See also:Liston as surgeon to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, and coming to See also:London in 184o as See also:professor of See also:surgery in See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:College, and surgeon to King's College See also:Hospital, he acquired a commanding position among the surgeons of the See also:metropolis. He revived the operation for cleft-See also:palate, which for many years had fallen into disrepute, and invented a See also:special mouth-gag for the same. He also devised many other surgical See also:instruments, See also:chief among which, and still in use to-See also:day, are his See also:bone forceps, See also:lion forceps and vaginal See also:speculum. In 1866 he was created a See also:baronet. He died in London on the loth of See also:February 1877. As a surgeon Fergusson's greatest merit is that of having introduced the practice of " conservative surgery," by which he meant the excision of a See also:joint rather than' the amputation of a See also:limb. He made his diagnosis with almost intuitive certainty; as an operator he was characterized by self-See also:possession in the most See also:critical circumstances, by See also:minute See also:attention to details and by See also:great refinement of See also:touch, and he relied more on his See also:mechanical dexterity than on complicated instruments. He was the author of The Progress of See also:Anatomy and Surgery in the Nineteenth See also:Century (1867), and of a See also:System of See also:Practical Surgery (1842), which went through several See also:editions.
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