About Charles Kite
Lived 1768 – 1811 (aged 42–43). Charles Kite was a British surgeon.
Charles Kite (died 1811) was an English surgeon and medical writer.
Biography Kite was a member of the corporation of surgeons in London, and practised at Gravesend, where he died in 1811. Besides contributing to the ‘Memoirs’ of the London Medical Society and other medical journals, he wrote: ‘An Essay on the Recovery of the Apparently Dead,’ 8vo, London, 1788, to which the silver medal of the Humane Society was adjudged. ‘Essays and Observations, Physiological and Medical, on the Submersion of Animals, and on the Resin of the Acoroides Resinifera, or Yellow Resin of Botany Bay. … Select Histories of Diseases. … (Meteorological Tables,’ &c.), 8vo, London, 1795.
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Who was Charles Kite?
English surgeon
When was Charles Kite born?
Charles Kite was born in 1768.
When did Charles Kite die?
Charles Kite died in 1811.
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Charles Kite was a surgeon.
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Charles Kite was British.
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