PARTRIDGE (Richard, 1805-1873, Surgeon, President of the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society)

Autograph letter signed to 'Dear Cheeze' asking for information "which you may have to communicate to me on matters concerning the welfare of King's College in which I have always taken the greatest interest ... any leisure I may have must be devoted to the examination of papers for an examination on Surgery to take place at the College of Surgeons ...", 4 sides sm. 8vo., monogrammed paper, no place, 16th May

He was instrumental in the apprehension of the gang of murderers and body snatchers called the London Burkers in 1831, named after the Edinburgh murderers Burke and Hare of three years earlier. In September 1862, Partridge was selected to travel to Italy to attend Giuseppe Garibaldi, who had been shot just above the right ankle during his march on Rome that summer. Unfortunately he failed to spot the bullet and if it had not been for the intervention of the French surgeon Auguste Nélaton he would have lost the leg.

Item Date:  1869

Stock No:  38769      £225

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