Thomas Gale (1507 to 1586) was an English surgeon who is remembered for writing the first book on surgery composed in English. Surgical books had been printed in English before his time, but these were translations of texts from continental Europe, so his work changed how surgical knowledge reached English readers. Gale served with the army of Henry VIII of England in France. His book, Certaine workes of chirurgie, was printed in London by Rouland Hall in 1563. A 1920 article on him in the British Journal of Surgery gives his years as 1507 to 1587, so sources differ by one year on when he died.
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Gale's was the first book on surgery to be written in English.
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Gale's was the first book on surgery to be written in English.
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