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Samuel Smith

1790–1867

Medical doctor and lecturer. Apprenticed as an apothecary surgeon in Leeds. Studied medicine in London and Edinburgh. Surgeon, Leeds Infirmary, 1819–64; consulting surgeon, 1864–7. Lecturer in midwifery, Leeds School of Medicine, 1831–67; president, 1834–5.

Sources

Anning and Walls 1982, pp. 7, 155, 157

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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