Timeline/Major events

• famous for collecting anatomical specimens
• Used self experimentation to find out the effects and causes of certain diseases
• Started work for his brother in a medical practice in 1748
• Became an army surgeon in 1760
• Set up a surgical practice in London in 1763
• Became a surgeon at King George’s hospital in 1768
• Appointed surgeon to King George III in 1776
• Became Surgeon-General to the army in 1790
• Died in poverty and debt in 1793