John Lizars
Military Person
1787 – 1860
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Who was John Lizars?
John Lizars was a Scottish surgeon and anatomist.
He was professor of surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and senior surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He performed the first ovariotomy in Britain in 1825. One of his pupils was Charles Darwin.
Besides authoring an early work on the dangers of tobacco, The Use and Abuse of Tobacco, Lizars published a number of important and beautifully illustrated anatomical texts in the early nineteenth century.
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- Born
- 1787
- Nationality
- Scotland
- Education
- University of Edinburgh
- Lived in
- Edinburgh
- Died
- 1860
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on July 23, 2013
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