Article ID: CBB000831626

George Guthrie (1785--1856): Surgeon to the Duke of Wellington, and a Pioneer Thoracic Surgeon (2007)

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George Guthrie had a distinguished career as a soldier, surgeon and medical reformer. He revolutionized military surgery following his active service during the Peninsular War in Spain and Portugal. His book Commentaries on the Surgery of War was based on this experience and was updated continuously; it remained the standard military text for half a century. During this campaign, he also struggled to improve the poor administration of the Army Medical Service. He had little respect for established dogma and was a man of great humanity and integrity who based his opinion on personal statistical observation together with his own anatomical and postmortem studies. His influence on surgical thinking was enormous and he was three times the President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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Authors & Contributors
Riccardo Gattai
Laura Faustini
Magnelli, Valeria
Bartolini, Donatella
Werner, Orla J.
Vollmuth, Ralf
Concepts
Surgery
Medicine
Physicians; doctors
Medicine and the military; medicine in war
Biographies
Historiography
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Early modern
21st century
Places
England
United States
Great Britain
Italy
Crimea (Ukraine)
Arctic regions
Institutions
Royal College of Surgeons, London
Royal Society of London
Great Britain. Royal Navy
University of Edinburgh
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