| Reference Number | RBC/17 |
| Title | Letter from Ceasar Hawkins to Richard Butcher |
| Date | 28 May 1855 |
| Creator Name | Hawkins, Ceasar Henry, 1798-1884 |
| Butcher, Richard George Herbert, 1819-1891 |
| Description | Manuscript letter from Ceasar Hawkins to Richard Butcher thanking him for a copy of his paper on excision of the knee joint. He comments that he see the 'operation as an established one in surgery. The difficulty will be in preventing it being [used] ... in unfit cases'. |
| Extent | 2 pages |
| Term | Knee Joint -- surgery |
| Letter |