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Surgeon-general of the Leeward Islands (1711-1714), where his brother William was governor. Admitted to the Company of Barber-Surgeons in London (1717). Began giving anatomical lectures (c.1719). Surgeon to Westminster hospital (1721). Developed the supra-public operation for bladder stones, published in 'Lithotomia Douglassiana, or, An account of a new method of making the high operation, in order to extract the stone out of the bladder' (1720). This invention won him the freedom of the City of London and of the Company of Barber-Surgeons (1723).

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