A full account of the system of friction, as adopted and pursued with the greatest success in cases of contracted joints and lameness, from various causes / by John Grosvenor: with observations on those cases to which it is most applicable, by William Cleoburey.

  • John Grosvenor
Date:
1825
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Credit: A full account of the system of friction, as adopted and pursued with the greatest success in cases of contracted joints and lameness, from various causes / by John Grosvenor: with observations on those cases to which it is most applicable, by William Cleoburey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ennobled in the person of Earl Gros- venor, of Eaton Hall, Cheshire. Mr. Grosvenor was educated under Mr. Russell, of Worcester, a gentle- man of great eminence in his profes- sion ; and after walking the hospitals in London, at a very early period of life, obtained the situation of House Surgeon to the Lock Hospital. From this place he moved, in the year 1768, to Oxford, upon the invitation of his uncle Dr. Tottie, Canon of Christ Church (the author of the well-known Sermons, and of the admirable Epi- taph on Bishop Hough in Worcester Cathedral, ) a person then of great influence, and under whose appoint- ment Mr. Stephen Grosvenor had, by accepting an office of no great consideration at Christ Church, en- deavoured to retrieve the prodigality of his father and grandfather, by which the estates of the family had
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