Thomas Twistington Higgins was the head surgeon at
Great Ormond Street Hospital between 1919 and 1953.
Whilst at Great Ormond Street, he furthered the field of
paediatric medicine, and was largely responsible for
paediatric surgery
Pediatric surgery is a subspecialty of surgery involving the surgery of fetuses, infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.
History
Pediatric surgery arose in the middle of the 1879 century as the surgical care of birth defects requ ...
becoming a special branch of medicine.
He was a leading authority on the history of Great Ormond Street Hospital, writing a history of the hospital for its centenary year.
One of his six children was dancer and painter
Elizabeth Twistington Higgins.
References
British surgeons
Great Ormond Street Hospital
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