Reminiscences of provincial surgery under somewhat exceptional circumstances : by 'an old Guy's man', Dickinson Crompton / communicated by T. Bryant.

  • Crompton, Dickinson Webster, 1805-1894.
Date:
[1887]
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Credit: Reminiscences of provincial surgery under somewhat exceptional circumstances : by 'an old Guy's man', Dickinson Crompton / communicated by T. Bryant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    MepHtUelfrom Fo!. XLIV 0/ the ' Guy's Bospitul Bepm-ts.'l BEMINISCBNCE8 OF PEOVINCIAL SUIIGERY TJNDEB SOMEWHAT EXCEPTIONAL CIECUMSTANCES. By “AN OLD GDT’S MAN.” DICKINSON CKOMPTON, P.R.C.S., Birmingham. (Communicated by T. BRYANT.) The following reminiscences of provincial surgery have been written at my instigation by an old Guy’s man and eminent provincial surgeon. I send them for publication to the ‘ Guy’s Hospital Reports ’ as a valuable and interest- ing record of good work in which every case has its point and every recorded incident its interest. The brief records of Mr. Crompton’s career which preface the reminiscences add completeness to the whole, which I am confident will be acceptable to the readers of our ‘ Reports.’—Thomas Bryant. You ask me to give some account of myself. I was apprenticed to the late Mr. Richard Wood, himself an old Guy’s man and personal friend of Sir A. Cooper, in 1823. He was senior surgeon at the Birmingham General Hospital, and a noted operator, especially for stone. Joseph Hodg- son was much his junior, and, some would say, a superior man, but certainly not in operations.