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2 unusual facts about The Surgeon


The Reverse of the Medal

Diana has removed to Sweden under the protection of Jagiello, a mutual friend (introduced in The Surgeon's Mate), and with all the appearance of carrying on an affair with him.

The Surgeon

Kid You're A Dreamer by Perth band The Panics from their first album A House on a Street in a Town I'm From was used as the opening credits theme music for the series.


Guillaume Dupuytren

Dupuytren is mentioned as a youthful acquaintance of Stephen Maturin in The Surgeon's Mate by Patrick O'Brian.

Marie Ney

In the 1940s and 1950s she appeared in the films Shadow of the Past (1950), Seven Days to Noon (1950), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), Simba (1955), Yield to the Night (1956), and The Surgeon's Knife (1957), among others.


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Alan Landers

When asked how he could have ignored the health risks of smoking, particularly after the addition of the Surgeon General's official 1964 report linking cancer to smoking, he insisted in a 2000 interview with Jane Brody of The New York Times that "at no time was I ever told that cigarettes could be dangerous to my health".

Animal magnetism

Hypnosis originates from the practice of Mesmerism, being an attempt at what the surgeon James Braid described as "rational mesmerism".

Baron Moynihan

It was created on 19 March 1929 for the surgeon Sir Berkeley Moynihan, 1st Baronet, the son of the Victoria Cross recipient Andrew Moynihan.

Brasenia

The genus commemorates the surgeon and Moravian missionary Christoph Brasen (1738-1774), who was the first superintendent of the Moravian mission at Nain in Labrador.

Breast biopsy

Depending on the location of the lesion to be biopsied, a radiologist will often perform needle localization beforehand to guide the surgeon to the site being biopsied.

Brightwalton

He learned surgery, physic (medicine) and mifwifery from the leading practitioners of their day, including the surgeon, Henry Cline, and the physician, William Saunders.

Deelfontein

The surgeon-radiographer in charge, Major John Hall-Edwards, achieved eminence in this field, though he subsequently lost an arm through x-ray damage.

Dennis Walters

Walters has been married three times: firstly in 1955 to Vanora, a daughter of the surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe (divorced 1969); secondly to Celia Sandys, daughter of the politician Duncan Sandys (divorced 1979); and thirdly, in 1981, to Bridgett Shearer (divorced 1992).

Edme Joachim Bourdois de La Motte

Suspected in 1793, he is jailed but soon released thanks to his wife and to his friend the surgeon Dubois.

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

Since Frankenstein's hands were badly burned in the name of science (possibly in The Evil of Frankenstein or Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed), the shabby stitch-work was done by Sarah (Madeline Smith), a beautiful mute girl who assists the surgeon, and who is nicknamed "Angel".

Frederick I. Pitman

They had two daughters; Anna Dorothy (1892-1972), who married Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, 2nd Baronet, and Isabel Mary (1891-?), who married the surgeon Sidney Maynard Smith - her son was the biologist John Maynard Smith.

Galaxy Song

The surgeon (John Cleese), upon failing to persuade Mrs Brown (Terry Jones) to donate her liver, opens the refrigerator doors to reveal a man wearing a pink tuxedo (Idle) who accompanies her through outer space singing about the universe.

Gillian Baverstock

Her mother later married the surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters (1892–1967); and her father married the writer Ida Crowe, with whom he had a daughter, Rosemary Pollock.

Hector William Munro

William Hector was the second son of the surgeon, Dr George Munro of Auchinbowie, one of the distinguished family of Munro of Auchinbowie.

Inferior anastomotic vein

It was named after the 17th century French surgeon Charles Labbé, the uncle to the surgeon and politician Léon Labbé.

John Norman Pearson

Son of the surgeon John Pearson (1758–1826), born 7 December 1787, he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Long-tailed Finch

The Long-tailed Finch was first described by ornithologist John Gould in 1840 as Amadina acuticauda, having been collected by Benjamin Bynoe, the surgeon aboard HMS Beagle.

Mae Murray

Koran was later raised by Sara Elizabeth "Bess" Cunning of Averill Park, New York, who began taking care of him in 1936, when the child was recovering from a double mastoid operation (Cunning's brother Dr. David Cunning was the surgeon).

Marcos Christino Fioravanti

In 1803, when serving as the surgeon of the HMS Seahorse, he disembarked in Brazil at the town of the Desterro in (what today is known as Florianópolis), and from there went on to settle in Osório in Rio Grande do Sul.

Nathaniel G. S. Hart

His four sisters married men of some renown – Ann married US Senator James Brown of Louisiana, Eliza married the surgeon Dr. Richard Pindell, Susanna married the lawyer Samuel Price and Lucretia married Henry Clay.

Philip Verheyen

It is also important to state here that the surgeon who performed Verheyen's amputation in Leiden had been a student of the anatomist Frederik Ruysch and on the patient's insistence had preserved his amputated leg for possible further study at a later date.

Ponte Minich

To have the bridge named for him, the surgeon Angelo Minich (1817–1893) bequeathed the city of Venice thirty thousand lire in his will of 25 September 1893, for the comfort and education of the city and for on-time departure performance of the Venezianer electrical clocks.

Samuel Boileau Goad

Goad was the father of Horatio Boileau Goad and grandfather of Sir Frederick Treves, the surgeon associated with the Elephant Man, Joseph Merrick.

Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States

Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States was a landmark report published on January 11, 1964 by the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health, chaired by then-Surgeon General of the United States Luther Terry regarding the negative health effects of smoking.

St. Gilgen

Many rich Viennese had their summer villas there such as the surgeon Theodor Billroth.

Stylidium subg. Andersonia

This subgenus occurs in areas of tropical northern Australia and into Southeast Asia and was named in honour of William Anderson, the surgeon and naturalist who sailed with James Cook.

Surgeon General of the United States

The insignia of the Surgeon General, and the USPHS, use the caduceus as opposed to the Rod of Asclepius

Surgeon-superintendent

Officially styled "superintendent", the responsibilities of the surgeon-superintendent were largely equivalent to that of a Naval Agent.

Teddy Gueritz

John Richardson, the surgeon who saved Gueritz's life, later became president of the General Medical Council and was created a life peer.

The Surgeon of Crowthorne

The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words is a book by Simon Winchester that was first published in England in 1998.

Thecodontosaurus

In the autumn of 1834, the surgeon Henry Riley and the curator of the Bristol Institution, Samuel Stutchbury, began to excavate "saurian remains" at the quarry of Durdham Down, at Clifton, presently a part of Bristol.

Treacher Collins

Edward Treacher Collins, the surgeon and ophthalmologist after whom the syndrome was named.

Valentine Mott

The couple had 9 children: 6 sons, including Alexander Brown Mott (1826-1889), Valentine Mott, Jr. (1822-1854), and Thaddeus P. Mott; and 3 daughters, including Louisa Dunmore Mott, who in 1842 married the surgeon William Holme Van Buren.

Walter Coulson

His will was proved 14 December 1860, most of his landed property and personalty being left to his brother William Coulson the surgeon, for his life, and afterwards to his two nephews.

Wolf Blood

His loss of blood is so great that he needs a transfusion, but no human will volunteer, so the surgeon uses a wolf as a source of the blood.

Yehiel Lasri

During the military service he filled a variety of medical positions in the Israeli Navy until becoming the surgeon-general of the navy with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.