Lawrence, SIR WILLIAM

Lawrence, SIR WILLIAM, Bart., F.R.S., a distinguished surgeon (1783-1867), became in 1815 one of the professors of Anatomy to the Royal College of Surgeons, and in 1829 a lecturer on Surgery to St Bartholomew's. He wrote important works on The Treatment of Hernia (1807), An Introduction to Comparative Anatomy and Physiology (1819), and A Treatise on the Venereal Diseases of the Eye (1831).