title: Richard Wiseman 1622-1676.
abstract: Wiseman, like Paré, learnt his surgery on the battlefield. On his return to civilian practice in London he became the first consultant surgeon, only treating patients referred to him. Increasing ill-health allowed him time to write and the resulting Severall Chirurgicall Treatises describes over 600 of his own cases. It is a more detailed and personal account than any written by his contemporaries, and his sections on the King's Evil and cancer show a remarkable understanding of disease for his time. Wiseman raised the status of British surgery very considerably, his work having a great influence well into the 18th century.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hull
mesh_terms: D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history*; D049670:History, 17th Century; D006801:Humans; D018601:King's Evil / Q000266:history; D008131:London; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000266:history*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000266:history; D014956:Writing / Q000266:history