Author Description

Tom Patterson was born in Melbourne in 1920 and educated at Cambridge and St. Thomas' Hospital. He worked for thirty years as a plastic and reconstructive surgeon in NHS hospitals and as a Clinical Lecturer in teaching and research at Oxford University. On retirement, he worked for ten years in the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine (Oxford) and in India, with a special interest in the East India Company. His leisure interests include mountain walking and playing chamber music. By the same author, also available on Amazon: The East India Company and Medicine in India (2010) Maps and Socks. A Walker's Miscellany (Dedicated to Arthur Hugh Sidgwick)(2013) Chamber Music Miscellany (2014)