Travers, Benjamin, 1783-1858, surgeon

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Travers, Benjamin, 1783-1858, surgeon

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1783-1858

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Born, London, 1783; educated, grammar school of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire and privately; placed in his father's counting-house, 1799; articled to Astley Paston Cooper, 1800-1806; member of the College of Surgeons, 1806; studied at Edinburgh, 1806-1807; demonstrator of anatomy at Guy's Hospital, 1807; surgeon to the East India Company's warehouses and brigade, 1809-1816; surgeon to the London Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye (later Moorfields Ophthalmic Hospital), 1810-1816, developing its resources as a teaching institution; fellow of the Royal Society, 1813; surgeon, St Thomas's Hospital, 1815; resigned his joint lectureship on surgery with Astley Cooper, 1819; President of the Hunterian Society, 1827; President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, 1827; Hunterian orator, 1838; member of the council, 1830, examiner in surgery, 1841-1858, Vice-President, 1845-1846, 1854-1855, President, 1847, 1856, Royal College of Surgeons of England; member, veterinary examining committee, 1833; lectured on surgery with Frederick Tyrell at St Thomas's Hospital, 1834; appointed one the Queen's surgeons extraordinary; surgeon in ordinary to the Prince Consort and serjeant-surgeon; first hospital surgeon in England to specialise in surgery of the eye; died, 1858.

Publications include: An inquiry into the process of nature in repairing injuries of the intestines: illustrating the treatment of penetrating wounds, and strangulated hernia (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, London, 1812); Surgical Essays with Sir Astley Paston Cooper Third edition (Cox & Son, London, 1818); A Synopsis of the Diseases of the Eye, and their treatment (London, 1820); An Inquiry concerning that disturbed state of the vital functions, usually denominated Constitutional Irritation (London, 1826); Observations on the pathology of venereal affections (London, 1830); A Further Inquiry concerning Constitutional Irritation, and the pathology of the nervous system (London, 1835); The Hunterian Oration, delivered ... on the 14th of February, 1838 (London, 1838); The Physiology of Inflammation, and the healing process (London, 1844).

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