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Darwin Correspondence Project

Edward Headland

1803–69

Surgeon. Practised in London. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, 1848. President of the Medical Society of London. The leading general practitioner of his time. One of the first practitioners to charge for his services rather than for medicine.

Source

Modern English biography

Bibliography

Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.

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