Letter from John Lizars to Richard Butcher Manuscript letter from John Lizars to Richard Butcher sending him best wishes for the New Year and informing Butcher that 'so highly did I prize your work on resection of joints, that I sent a copy to a young surgeon in the Army in the Crimea. Lizars states that while he agrees with Butcher on the value of resection of the 'shoulder, elbow, wrist & finger, but cannot join you, in that of the knee joint'. 5 January 1856