Clowes, WILLIAM

Clowes, WILLIAM, an Elizabethan surgeon of distinction, was born about 1540, became surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, served with Leicester in the Low Countries, and also on board the fleet that defeated the Spanish Armada. He became surgeon to the queen, and after a prosperous practice in London retired to a country house in Essex, where he died in 1604. He wrote five books in clear and vigorous English, of which two long continued popular: A Prooved Practise for all Young Chirurgians (1591), and A Treatise on the Struma (1602).