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Description: | SIR FREDERICK TREVES (1853-1923)
Surgeon, famous for performing a successful appendectomy on King Edward VII, Treves was also a travel writer and his book of medical reminiscences includes the well-known story of "The Elephant Man" (1923). Treves was born in Dorchester, educated at William Barnes' school, and he was a friend of Thomas Hardy. His tour of Dorset, "Highways and Byways in Dorset" was published in 1906. | Subjects: | Writers Surgeons Medical historians Local history Authors Medical history Biographers | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Telephone: | 01305 224440/224652 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7952 | Go to resource |
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