Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Robert Liston NPG P6(91)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by David Octavius Hill, and Robert Adamson

Educated at Edinburgh University and in 1818 became a surgeon in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Over the next ten years, he gained a reputation in Edinburgh as a teacher of anatomy and as an operating surgeon. A skilful surgeon, Liston was renowned for completing operations in a matter of seconds at a time before anaesthetics when speed minimised the pain for the patient and increased the chance of survival. Liston left Edinburgh in 1835 to take up a post as Professor of Clinical Surgery at... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.