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Syme, James
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A great surgeon, born in Edin burgh; was demonstrator under Liston; was elected to the chair of Clinical Surgery in 1833; gave up the chair to succeed Liston in London in 1848, but returned a few months after; was re-elected to the chair he had vacated; he was much honoured by his pupils, and by none more than Dr. John Brown, who characterised him as "the best, ablest, and most beneficent of men"; he wrote treatises and papers on surgery (1799-1870).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Syme, James'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/syme-james.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Syme, James'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/syme-james.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
