EVANS, JOHN RHAIADORE (1790? - 1850?); surgeon
Date of birth: 1790?
Date of death: 1850?
Gender: Male
Occupation: surgeon
Area of activity: Medicine
Author: Elwyn Evans
Born in Glantanat Isaf, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, and educated at Oswestry Grammar School. He was tutored by Hugh Roberts, a surgeon at Llanfyllin and then became Sir Benjamin Brodie's pupil. He became the chief medical officer of Bangor Hospital and subsequently a lecturer in surgery and one of the medical officers of the Middlesex Hospital and the Royal Metropolitan Infirmary. He was the author of a number of medical papers, e.g. On the Remedial Evils attending the Life of the People; On Irritation of the Spinal Nerves; The remediable Influence of Oxygen on Vital Air.
Author
- Elwyn Evans
- R. Williams, Montgomeryshire Worthies (1894)
Sources
- Wikidata: Q20821170
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Published date: 2001
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