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SOUTH, John Flint (1797-1882)

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Metadata

Born: 1797

Died: 1882

Postnominals: MRCS

Editorial Description

1819, FRCS 1843; lecturer on anatomy at St Thomas's Hosp, succeeding B. TRAVERS as full surgeon in 1841; son of a druggist and half-brother of the astronomer Sir James South ; close friend of J. H. GREEN and helped him with his Dissector's Manual; became prof of surgery at Roy Coll Surg; active Anglican later in life; on council of LONDON PHREN SOC, 1824. (DNB)

Editorial Information

Identifier	1055.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	312
Printed page	307
Database ID	2948

Original Transcription

1055. SOUTH, John Flint (1797-1882), MRCS 1819, FRCS 1843; lecturer on anatomy at St Thomas's Hosp, succeeding B. TRAVERS as
full surgeon in 1841; son of a druggist and half-brother of the astronomer Sir James South (1785-1867); close friend of J. H. GREEN
and helped him with his Dissector's Manual; became prof of surgery
at Roy Coll Surg; active Anglican later in life; on council of LONDON
PHREN SOC, 1824. (DNB)