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to the Queen); and Charles Warner (https://www.victoria countyhistory.ac.uk/sites/default/files/work-in-progress/vch_ cirencester_workhouse_v2.5_0.pdf). Stafford moved to London in 1820 and entered St. Bartholomew's Hospital and became assistant/student of John Abernethy (1764-1831), the founder of the medical school of St Bartholomew's, held the office of assistant-surgeon for 28 years, till, "in 1815, he was elected principal surgeon. He had before that time been appointed lecturer in anatomy to the RCS (1814). Abernethy was not a great operator, though his name is associated with the treatment of aneurysm by ligature of the external iliac artery" (https://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/John_Abernethy_(surgeon)). Abernethy appointed Stafford as his house surgeon from 1823 to 1824. Stafford was admitted as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1824. Stafford returned from 1 year stay in Paris to London in 1826 and began to work as a surgeon. The Jacksonian prize [2] was awarded to him for his work: "On Spina Bifida, and Injuries and Diseases of the Spine and the Medulla Spinalis".
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