Brushfield, Thomas Nadauld (1828-1910)

Notes of lectures on Medicine by Dr. William John Little; and on Surgery by Thomas Blizard Curling and James Luke; at the London Hospital. Illustrated with a few small pen-drawings of instruments, etc.: text within red rules. Produced in London.

1846, 1847

1 volume 189 pp. + 102 pp. obl. 12 mo. 91/2 x 16 cm. Original vellum binding.

Purchased 1932.

Thomas Nadauld Brushfield was apprenticed to Samuel Byles, surgeon-apothecary and man-midwife, of Spitalfields, Middlesex, in 1843.

He was on the staff of the Chester County Asylum, 1853-1866, and was Superintendent of Brookwood Asylum in Surrey 1866-1882.

On retirement, after injuries from an assault by one of the inmates, he contributed extensively to the Oxford English Dictionary.

For an obituary see the British Medical Journal 1910, ii, p. 2054.

At Wellcome Collection:

See MS.1587 (relating to Cheshire Lunatic Asylum) and MS.5146 (also by Brushfield).

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).