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John Lizars was born in Edinburgh around 1787. He was the son of a publisher and engraver in the city, Daniel Lizars (died 1812), and brother of William Home Lizars (1788-1859). He was educated at the Royal High School and studied at Edinburgh University. After obtaining his medical diploma in 1810, he served as a naval surgeon seeing active service during the Peninsular War. He returned to Edinburgh in 1815 and was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Lizars became successful in a surgical partnership in the city and then as a teacher of anatomy and surgery, and in 1831 he was appointed to the Chair of Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons. His appointment was combined with that of a senior operating surgeon at the Royal Infirmary where Robert Liston (1794-1847) was a colleague. His publications include A system of anatomical plates of the human body, accompanied with descriptions, and physiological, pathological, and surgical observations (1822), Observations on extraction of diseased ovaria (1835), and a System of practical surgery, with numerous explanatory plates, the drawings after nature (1835). These were used very extensively by nineteenth century medical students. Lizars also contributed to the major medical journals of the day. Professor John Lizars died on 21 May 1860.
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