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He lived for some years in early life in Paris , and started on a career as an artist, but abandoned it for surgery. He entered St George's Hospital , London (where his half-brother, Dr Cornwallis Hewett, was physician from 1825 to 1833) becoming demonstrator of Anatomy and curator of the museum. He was the pupil and intimate friend of Sir BC Brodie , and helped him in much of his work. Eventually he rose to be anatomical lecturer, assistant-surgeon and surgeon to the hospital. In 1876 he was president of the College of Surgeons; in 1877 he was made serjeant-surgeon extraordinary to Queen Victoria , in 1884 serjeant-surgeon, and in 1883 he was created a baronet. He was a very good lecturer, but shrank from authorship; his lectures on ''Surgical Affections of the Head'' were, however, embodied in his treatise on the subject in Holmes 's ''System of Surgery''. As a surgeon he was always extremely conservative, but hesitated at no operation, however severe, when convinced of its expediency. He was a perfect operator, and one of the most trustworthy of counsellors. |
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