Title

William Bowman, English anatomist, surgeon and ophthalmologist, 1884. Artist: Edward Linley Sambourne

Caption

William Bowman, English anatomist, surgeon and ophthalmologist, 1884. Bowman (1816-1892) was born at Nantwich, Cheshire. After five years at Birmingham General Hospital, in 1837 he moved to Kings College Hospital, London. In the early 1840s he published papers on the structure and function of the kidneys. In 1846 he joined Moorfields Ophthalmic Hospital, London, and became an authority on the eye and the leading ophthalmic surgeon. Made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1841, Bowman was elected the first president of the Ophthalmological Society in 1880, and was created a Baron in 1884. Cartoon in the Fancy Portraits series from Punch. (London, 12 January 1884).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1884

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Photo12/Heritage Images

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HRM19B63_495

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No

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Rights managed

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50,0Mb (1,9Mb) / 14,0in x 13,9in / 4191 x 4168 (300dpi)

Keywords

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