Language
en
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Project Gutenberg
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Produced by Robert Tonsing and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2019-07-06
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
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1853–1923
A celebrated British surgeon, he helped transform abdominal surgery and became famous for treating appendicitis at a time when it was often deadly. He is also remembered for his close association with Joseph Merrick, the "Elephant Man," and for the memoirs and travel writing he published later in life.
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