Thomas Spencer Wells
1818–97
Surgeon. Member, Royal College of Surgeons, 1841; fellow, 1844. Assistant surgeon, Royal Navy, 1841; surgeon 1848. Surgeon to the dispensary of the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women and Children, 1854. Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons, 1877; vice-president, 1879; president, 1883. Perfected techniques for ovariotomy and adopted Listerian antisepsis from 1878. Knighted, 1883.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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