Charles Aldis

Sir Charles Aldis (16 March 1776[1] – 28 March 1863) was an English surgeon. His son, Charles James Berridge Aldis, was also a physician.

Sir Charles Aldis

Aldis was born in Aslacton, Norfolk, the son of Daniel Aldis, a medical practitioner, and Mary Dix.[1] He came to London in 1794 and studied at Guy's and Bartholomew's Hospitals. In 1797 or 1798 he was made surgeon to the sick and wounded prisoners of war at Norman Cross barracks, Huntingdonshire (where from 10,000 to 12,000 French and Dutch prisoners were then detained). In 1800 he moved to Hertford, where he introduced vaccination into three parishes in spite of opposition from the doctors, but in 1802 began to practise in London, and in 1803 became a member of the College of Surgeons. He was surgeon to the New Finsbury Dispensary, and founded a special hospital, called the Glandular Institution for the Cure of Cancer, in Clifford Street. Charles Aldis was known as an antiquary as well as a surgeon, and was knighted by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, though whether for any special services does not appear. He died at his London home, 13 Old Burlington Street, on 28 March 1863.[1]

Works

He wrote: "Observations on the Nature and Treatment of Glandular Diseases, especially those denominated Cancer," pp. 116, London, 1820, 8vo, and subsequently; also papers in "Defence of Vaccination," &c.; an "Essay on the too frequent Use of the Trephine;" on the "British System of Education;" and many articles in periodicals.

gollark: Did you know? Eigendecomposition is a way to represent a matrix in terms of eigenvectors and eigenvalues.
gollark: Since the entire thing is horrible discrete approximations anyway.
gollark: I basically just have to divide the force by γ³ as long as the box is ticked.
gollark: It turns out that implementing special relativity is very easy (since it's rendered from the reference frame of the ground or something).
gollark: Well, I remember some sort of "lunar lander" game I made several years ago, presumably very loosely based on the "lunar lander" game on ??? platform, so it's based on that.

References
  1. "Aldis, Sir Charles (1776–1863), surgeon". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-310. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.