Caesar Hawkins

Caesar Henry Hawkins FRS ( born September 19, 1798 in Bisley, Gloucestershire, † July 20, 1884 ) was a British surgeon.

Career and work

Caesar Hawkins was the son of the priest E. Hawkins and the grandson of Sir Caesar Hawkins (1711-1786), the chief surgeon ( Serjeant Surgeon ) was the British royal family. Hawkins studied at Christ's Hospital Medicine. In 1818 he went to St George 's Hospital in London. He worked there from 1829 to 1861 as a surgeon. 1852 and 1861 he was president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 1849 he was awarded the Hunterian Oration at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 1862, Hawkins top surgeon of Queen Victoria.

Hawkins was a gifted surgeon. He introduced in 1846 as the first at the London Hospital successfully ovariotomies ( removal of the ovaries via an abdominal incision ) through at a time, at the anesthesia was unknown. The Kolotomie (opening of the colon ), he also popularized.

Further Reading

• Resignation of Caesar Hawkins. In: British medical journal. Volume 2, Number 311, December 1866, pp. 680, ISSN 0007-1447. PMID 20,744,662th PMC 2310446 (Free full text ).