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SAVORY, SIR WILLIAM SCOVELL, BART

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 254 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAVORY, See also:SIR See also:WILLIAM SCOVELL, See also:BART . (1826–1895), See also:British surgeon, was See also:born on the 30th of See also:November 1826, in See also:London. He entered St See also:Bartholomew's See also:Hospital in 1844, becoming M.R.C.S. in 1847, and F.R.C.S. in 1852. From 1849 to 1859 he was demonstrator of See also:anatomy and operative See also:surgery at St Bartholomew's, and for many years See also:curator of the museum, where he devoted himself to pathological and physiological See also:work. In 1859 he succeeded Sir See also:James See also:Paget as lecturer on See also:general anatomy and See also:physiology. In 1861 he became assistant surgeon, and in 1867 surgeon, holding the latter See also:post till 1891; and from 1869 to 1889 he was lecturer on surgery. In the See also:College of Surgeons he was a See also:man of the greatest See also:influence, and was See also:president for four successive years, 1885-1888. As Hunterian See also:professor of See also:comparative anatomy and physiology (1859–1861), he lectured on " General Physiology " and the " Physiology of See also:Food." In 1884 he delivered the See also:Bradshaw Lecture on the " See also:Pathology of See also:Cancer." In 1887 he delivered the Hunterian Oration. In 1879, at See also:Cork, he had declared against " Listerism " at the See also:meeting of the British Medical Association, " the last public expression," it has been said, " by a prominent surgeon against the now accepted method of See also:modern surgery." In 1887 he became surgeon-extraordinary to See also:Queen See also:Victoria, and. in 1890 he was made a See also:baronet. Savory, who was an able operator, but averse from exhibitions of brilliancy, was a powerful and authoritative man in his profession, his lucidity of expression being almost as valuable as his See also:great knowledge of physiology and anatomy. He died in London on the 4th of See also:March 1895. See also:Martyr-dom.

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