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John Soelberg Wells

1824–79

Ophthalmic surgeon. MD, Edinburgh, 1856. Studied for four years in Germany and Holland. Clinical assistant to William Bowman, Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, from 1860; assistant surgeon, 1867; surgeon, 1873. Professor of ophthalmology, King’s College, London.

Source

Plarr 1930.

Bibliography

Plarr, Victor Gustave. 1930. Plarr’s lives of the fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Revised by Sir D’Arcy Power. 2 vols. London: Simpkin Marshall.

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