John Tomes
1815–95
Dental surgeon. Practised at Mortimer Street, London, from 1840. Dental surgeon, King’s College Hospital, 1840–3; Middlesex Hospital, 1843–74. Studied the histology of bone and dental tissues. Persuaded the Royal College of Surgeons to institute a licence in dental surgery in 1858. Published System of dental surgery (1859). Retired in 1876. Knighted, 1886. FRS 1850.
Source
ODNB.
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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