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Medical Science History
It has been said that behind every great man there is a great biographer. Professor Gardner demonstrated this principle in his biography of Henry Wade…This elegantly produced book suggests to the reviewer that there must been shed-loads of documents, correspondence and photographs that required reading and notation. The result is a meticulous description of a dedicated surgeon who revered his medical school and hospital.

Surgeons News
Gardner has not just researched deeply the individual and his life's work. He has provided valuable commentary putting into historical and medical context, the phases of the career of a surgeon who saw, introduced so many of the things we now take for granted: a blood transfusion service, antibiotics, the National Health Service…RSM Press have produced a handsome volume.

Surgeon
This is much more than the biography of a fascinating individual. It offers colourful and detailed insights into the times and the various worlds in which he lived…Dugald Gardner has a writing style that makes for easy reading. The page layout and the illustrations are easy on the eye, making this book a delight to read. I hope we shall see more like this.

The Ulster Medical Journal
Dugald Gardner's biography is painstaking and draws on Wade's own accounts, letters to understand his life, times, and work. Many photographs, sketches and drawings have been tracked down, to illustrate the great achievements of this many-sided creative Surgeon. Highly recommended.

University of Edinburgh Journal 2008
Weighty and sumptuously produced it is replete with illustrations, map reference notes and appendices. (...) There is much here to interest the reader whether he is surgeon, scientist or soldier or simply interested in early twentieth century Edinburgh.

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Dugald Gardner