Sir Thomas Longmore CB (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.
He was knighted in 1886.
His papers are part of the Wellcome Collection's Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection.
References
- England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538–1975
- ^ "Longmore, Sir Thomas (1816 - 1895)". livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk.
- "Surgeon-General Sir Thomas Longmore, C.B". British Medical Journal. 2 (1815): 936–937. 12 October 1895. ISSN 0007-1447. PMC 2508935.
- "Netley Military Cemetery - research about the people who are laid to rest there - Longmore Sir Thomas Surgeon General K.C.B." www.netley-military-cemetery.co.uk. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
- Luscombe, Stephen. "Sir Thomas Longmore CB". The British Empire : Yorkshire Regiment. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
- Longmore, Thomas (1865). "Remarks upon Osteo-myelitis consequent on Gunshot Wounds of the Upper and Lower Extremities, and especially upon the Treatment of Stumps affected with Osteomyelitis after Amputation necessitated by such Injuries". Medico-Chirurgical Transactions. 48: 43–64.1. doi:10.1177/095952876504800105. ISSN 0959-5287. PMC 2147826. PMID 20896266.
- Shaw, William Arthur. (1970). The Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day &c. Vol. I. Clearfield. p. 379. ISBN 978-0-8063-0443-4.
- "Papers of Sir Thomas Longmore". Wellcome Collection. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
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