Item TH/PP/69 - Papers, 1795-1843, of surgeon Jonathan Toogood including letters from Henry Cline and Astley Cooper

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TH/PP/69

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Papers, 1795-1843, of surgeon Jonathan Toogood including letters from Henry Cline and Astley Cooper

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  • 1795 - 1843 (Creation)

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11 items

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Papers of Jonathan Toogood, 1810-1843, comprising letters from Henry Cline, 1814, J Clarke, 1815, R Willan, 1810, Sir Astley Cooper, 1823-1833, and Thomas Turner, 1843, concerning medical conditions and treatment relating to treatment of a patients; letter from Gilbert Wakefield to Rev C Toodgood, Sherborne, Dorsetshire, (uncle of Jonathan Toogood) Jan 1795 (damaged). Also contains correspondence of depositor concerning the Toogood family history, 1979. (11 letters)

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(1784-1870)

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Jonathan Toogood was a surgeon, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and one of the founders of the Bridgewater Infirmary in 1813. He retired to Torquay in the 1860s and died in 1870. Publications include: Hints to Mothers and other persons interested in the management of females at the age of puberty (London, 1845); Illustrations of the Fraud and Folly of Homeopathy (London, 1848); Medical Toogoodism and Homeopathy. Extracted from the British Journal of Homeopathy (London, 1849); Reminiscences of a Medical Life, with cases and practical illustrations (Taunton, 1853).

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