The Palace and Park by Phillips, Forbes, Latham, Owen, Scharf, and Shenton

440. FREDERICK CARPENTER SKEY. _Surgeon._

[Born at Upton-on-Severn, 1798. Still living.] Professor of Surgery to the Royal College of Surgeons of England: Surgeon to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and other institutions. The author of a work on “Operative Surgery,” in which a strong and humane plea is put forward against the use of the knife until the last extremity; and of the Hunterian Oration for 1850.