About Thomas Longmore
Lived 1816 – 1895 (aged 78–79). Thomas Longmore was a British medical officer, writer, educator and surgeon.
Sir Thomas Longmore (10 October 1816 – 30 September 1895) was Surgeon-General and professor of military surgery at the Army Medical School at Netley Hospital. Prior to this appointment, he had a long and distinguished career as a military doctor and surgeon, notably serving during every major engagement of the Crimean War, even while suffering from frostbite.
He wrote numerous reports, manuals and treatises on several topics, such as the development of osteomyelitis following gunshot wounds.
He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
His papers are part of the Wellcome Collection's Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection.
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