Edward Ford (surgeon)

Edward Ford (1746 to 1809) was a British surgeon who practised in London in the later eighteenth century and wrote an early treatise on disease of the hip joint. He received his medical training under Dr. John Ford in Bristol, settled in London at an early age as a surgeon, was admitted to the court of assistants of the Royal College of Surgeons, and built an excellent practice. In 1780 he became surgeon to the Westminster General Dispensary, an office he resigned in 1801 after more than twenty years, giving the charity the arrears of his salary, four hundred guineas, when its finances were low. His treatise on the disease of the hip joint, with remarks on white swellings of the knee, appeared in 1794 and was reissued in 1810 and 1818 by his nephew and successor Thomas Copeland. He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1792 and died on 15 September 1809.