Notable Barber Surgeons / edited by Ian Burn.

A collection of essays, each of which provides an account of the life and achievements of a leading member of the Company of Barbers and Surgeons, one of the London-based livery companies. Those covered by an essay are: Thomas Vicary (1495-1562), Thomas Gale (1507-1587), Edmund Harman (1509-1577), John Caius (1510-1573), Robert Balthrop (1522-1591), John Banester (1533-1610), William Clowes (1544-1604), John Gerard (1545-1612), John Woodall (1570-1643), Thomas Hollier (1609-1690), Sir Charles Scarburgh (1615-1694), Jonathan Goddard (1617-1676), Richard Wiseman (1620-1676), Charles Bernard (1650-1711), Edward Tyson (1651-1708), William Cheselden (1688-1752), John Ranby (1703-1773), John Paterson (1705-1789), Charles John Shoppee (1823-1897), Thomas James Barratt (1841-1914), Sidney Young (1843-1914), and Alfred Webb-Johnson (1880-1958).