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MARSHALL, JOHN (1818-1891)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 772 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARSHALL, See also:JOHN (1818-1891) , See also:British surgeon and physiologist, was See also:born at See also:Ely, on the 11th of See also:September 1818, his See also:father being a lawyer of that See also:city. He entered University See also:College, See also:London, in 1838, and in 1847 he was appointed assistant-surgeon at the See also:hospital, becoming in 1866 surgeon and See also:professor of See also:surgery. He was professor of See also:anatomy at the Royal See also:Academy from 1873 till his See also:death. In 1883 he was See also:president of the College of Surgeons, also See also:Bradshaw lecturer (on " See also:Nerve-stretching for the See also:relief or cure of See also:pain "), Hunterian orator in 1885, and See also:Morton lecturer in 1889. In 1867 he published his well-known textbook The Outlines of See also:Physiology in two volumes. He died on the 1st of See also:January 1891. " Marshall's fame," wrote See also:Sir W. See also:MacCormac in his See also:volume on the See also:Centenary of the College of Surgeons (1900), " rests on the See also:great ability with which he taught anatomy in relation to See also:art, on the introduction into See also:modern surgery of the galvano-cautery, and on the operation for the excision of varicose See also:veins. He was one of the first to show that See also:cholera might be spread by means of drinking See also:water, and issued a See also:report on the outbreak of cholera in Broad See also:Street, St See also:James's, 1854.

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