Frederic Carpenter Skey was an English surgeon who lived from 1798 to 1872 and spent most of his working life at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. Born at Upton-on-Severn, he was apprenticed to John Abernethy in 1816, became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1822, taught anatomy and surgery in the Aldersgate Street school, and rose to full surgeon at the hospital in 1854. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1837 and was president of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in 1859 and of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1863. In 1864 he chaired an Admiralty committee on the treatment of venereal disease in the army and navy, and its report led directly to the Contagious Diseases Act. His books included Operative Surgery, which urged that the knife be used only as a last resort, and Hysteria.
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Frederic Carpenter Skey FRS (1 December 1798
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15 August 1872) was an English surgeon.
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was an English surgeon.
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he was appointed chairman at the Admiralty of the first parliamentary committee to inquire into the best mode of treating venereal disease in the army and navy
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was an English surgeon.
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