| Reference Number | RBC/100 |
| Title | Letter from John Lizars to Richard Butcher |
| Date | 5 January 1856 |
| Creator Name | Lizars, John, [1787]-1860 |
| Butcher, Richard George Herbert, 1819-1891 |
| Description | 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'. |
| Extent | 1 page |
| Term | Joints -- surgery |
| Letter |