title: John Stough Bobbs: father of gall bladder surgery.
abstract: This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Stough Bobbs (1809-1870), who was the first surgeon to carry out an elective operation on the gall bladder for gall stones.
authors.affiliation: Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Biomedical Sciences, London, UK.
authors.forename: Harold
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ellis
mesh_terms: D005704:Gallbladder / Q000601:surgery*; D042882:Gallstones / Q000266:history* / Q000601:surgery; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans