Soldier and pioneer surgeon Raymond Hurt £24.95,  978-1-85315-765-3,  294pp,  Hardback,  June 2008

Sunday Telegraph, 29 March 2009
Raymond Hurt brings an eye for detail and a steady hand to Guthrie's story. For devotees of military or medical history it is a worthy contribution to fill a long-lamented gap.

Ulster Medical Journal 2009: 78 (1)
This book is a remarkable read. I can recommend it both for serious study and for the reader who wishes to dip in and out of the work of an outstanding soldier and surgeon of the 19th Century.

Raj Gill, School of Medicine, Keele University
If you want a good book to read then this one comes recommended which ever year you may be in!

‘An innovative and esteemed nineteenth century surgeon who has been largely overlooked in standard surgical histories, George James Guthrie has now found his definitive biographer.'
Foreword - Sir Barry Jackson - Past president, The Royal College of Surgeons of England

George Guthrie was a remarkable 19th century soldier and pioneer surgeon, and a medical reformer and politician. Born in London in 1785, he became an apprentice surgeon at the tender age of thirteen, and passed the membership examination of the College of Surgeons two years later. His experience during the seven year Peninsular War led him to revolutionize the treatment of battle injuries, and this was against considerable opposition from previously held opinions. On his return to civilian life he founded an eye hospital, was appointed to the Westminster Hospital and was three times President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He reformed the College Charter, attacked nepotism in the College, strove to improve the status of army surgeons and for twenty years gave regular lectures on the treatment of war wounds.

The fascinating story of Guthrie’s life from his early qualification as a surgeon to his death in 1856 is told here for the first time in an illuminating biography, which is divided into two parts; the first major part describes his army and civilian career, and the second summarises each of his many published works, some of which include interesting case histories.

George Guthrie: Soldier and pioneer surgeon will be of great interest to medical and army historians and all those involved in the history of medicine and war.

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