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HEWETT, SIR PRESCOTT GARDNER

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HEWETT, SIR PRESCOTT GARDNER

HEWETT, See also:
SIR
SIR See also:
PRESCOTT, WILLIAM HICKLING (1796-1859)
PRESCOTT See also:
GARDNER
GARDNER, PERCY (1846– )
GARDNER , See also:

BART, JEAN (1651-1702)

Bart. (1812-1891), See also:

BRITISH

British surgeon, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 3rd of See also:

JULY

July 1812, being the son of a See also:

YORKSHIRE

Yorkshire See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country See also:

GENTLEMAN (from Lat. gentilis, " belonging to a race or gens," and " man "; Fr. gentilhomme, Span. gentil hombre, Ital. gentil huomo, in its original and strict signification, a term denoting a man of good family, the Lat. generosus (its invariable transl

gentleman. He lived for some years in See also:

early See also:

LIFE

life in See also:

Paris, and started on a career as an artist, but abandoned it for See also:

surgery. He entered St See also:

George's See also:

HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

Hospital, See also:

LONDON

London (where his See also:

HALF

half-See also:

BROTHER

brother, Dr See also:

Cornwallis Hewett, was physician from 1825 to 1833) becoming demonstrator of See also:

anatomy and See also:

CURATOR (Lat. for " one who takes care," curare, to take care of)

curator of the museum. He was the 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 and intimate friend of Sir B. C. See also:

Brodie, and helped him in much of his See also:

WORK

work. Eventually he See also:

rose to be anatomical lecturer, assistant-surgeon and surgeon to the hospital. In 1876 he was See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College of Surgeons; in 1877 he was made See also:

SERJEANT

serjeant-surgeon extraordinary to See also:

Queen See also:

Victoria, in 1884 serjeant-surgeon, and in 1883 he was created a See also:

BARONET

baronet. He was a very See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good lecturer, but shrank from authorship; his lectures on Surgical Affections of the See also:

Head were, however, embodied in his See also:

TREATISE

treatise on the subject in See also:

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL (18o9-1894)

Holmes's See also:

SYSTEM

System of Surgery. As a surgeon he was always extremely conservative, but hesitated at no operation, however severe, when convinced of its expediency. He was a perfect operator, and one of the most trustworthy of counsellors.

He died on the 19th of See also:

JUNE

June 1891.

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