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Henry Lee (surgeon)

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as Hunterian Professor, his subject being "Syphilis and Local Diseases affecting principally the Organs of Generation". At St George's Hospital he became the curator of its museum and was a lecturer in
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where he started work as a syphilologist. In 1861 he returned to St George's Hospital, becoming a full surgeon there two years later. Lee had a long connection with the
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Lee retired in 1878, at the age of 60 and lived a further twenty years, dying at his home, 61 Queensborough Terrace,
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RA, in the Secretary's room of the Royal College of Surgeons, and his bust by
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In 1847 Lee was appointed assistant surgeon at the newly founded
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in the following year, later becoming one of its first surgical
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on the Causes, Consequences and Treatment of Purulent Deposits
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Inscription on the grave of Henry Lee in Highgate Cemetery
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Henry Lee was born on 18 February 1817 at Wooley Firs,
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Physicians of Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital
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Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
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White Waltham
Highgate Cemetery
pathologist
syphilologist
White Waltham
Maidenhead, Berkshire
Royal Artillery
lieutenant-colonel
King's College
St George's Hospital
registrars
MRCS
FRCS
King's College Hospital
Queen Charlotte's Hospital
London Lock Hospital
Royal College of Surgeons
physiology
John Hunter
Timothy Holmes
syphilis
venereal diseases

Highgate Cemetery

Hyde Park
Highgate Cemetery
James Sant
Thomas Brock

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