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Historical Bibliography Updated: June 17, 2026

Memorials of the craft of surgery in England. From materials compiled by John Flint South. Edited by D'Arcy Power.

Publication Details

London: Cassell & Co., 1886 CE.

South, trained in Germany, became surgeon to St. Thomas’s Hospital. Through his efforts John Hunter’s body was reburied in Westminster Abbey and South himself wrote the inscription on the tablet there. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

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Entry Number#5797
Permanent Linkhttps://hom-sveltekit.fly.dev/entry/6886
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLmemorials-of-the-craft-of-surgery-in-england

Geographic Context

Publication place: London

Mentioned in annotation: Westminster