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Frederick Treves, English Surgeon and Author

Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet (February 15, 1853 - December 7, 1923) was a prominent English surgeon of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. He specialized in abdominal surgery and , in 1888, performed the first appendectomy in England. He was appointed a Surgeon Extraordinary to Queen Victoria. In 1884, Treves first saw Joseph Merrick, known as the Elephant Man, being exhibited by showman Tom Norman in a shop across the road from the London Hospital. Around 1886 Treves brought Merrick to the London Hospital where Merrick lived until his death in April 1890. He was also the author of many books, including The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences (1923), Surgically Applied Anatomy (1883), The Highways and Byways of Dorset (the county in which he was born) (1906), A Student's Handbook of Surgical Operations (1892), Uganda for a Holiday, The Land That is Desolate, and The Cradle of the Deep (1908). He died in 1923 at the age of 70 from peritonitis.

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Title: Frederick Treves, English Surgeon and Author

Caption: Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet (February 15, 1853 - December 7, 1923) was a prominent English surgeon of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. He specialized in abdominal surgery and , in 1888, performed the first appendectomy in England. He was appointed a Surgeon Extraordinary to Queen Victoria. In 1884, Treves first saw Joseph Merrick, known as the Elephant Man, being exhibited by showman Tom Norman in a shop across the road from the London Hospital. Around 1886 Treves brought Merrick to the London Hospital where Merrick lived until his death in April 1890. He was also the author of many books, including The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences (1923), Surgically Applied Anatomy (1883), The Highways and Byways of Dorset (the county in which he was born) (1906), A Student's Handbook of Surgical Operations (1892), Uganda for a Holiday, The Land That is Desolate, and The Cradle of the Deep (1908). He died in 1923 at the age of 70 from peritonitis.

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