Thomas Michael Greenhow MD MRCS FRCS was an English surgeon and epidemiologist.
Occupation
physician
Born
July 5, 1792
Died
October 25, 1881
Overview
Thomas Michael Greenhow MD MRCS FRCS (5 July 1792 – 25 October 1881) was an English surgeon and epidemiologist.
Career
Greenhow was the second son of Edward Martin Greenhow, an army surgeon from North Shields. He was a medical graduate of the University of Edinburgh and became MRCS (London) in 1814, having been a surgery student at London's Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals.
Greenhow spent much of his working life in Newcastle. He and fellow surgeon Sir John Fife are recorded together in 1827 as being Eminent Persons of Newcastle and Gateshead. Greenhow's surgical inventions were heralded by London surgeons in the 1830s. Debrett's records that Greenhow was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, having become, in 1843, one of the original 300 fellows.
