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His claim to fame was that one of his arms was a mass of warts from elbow to finger-tips, the only clear bit being the palm of his hand.Waterloo sold his arm to a local doctor for an advance payment

Waterloo sold his arm to a local doctor for an advance payment of half a guinea, the arm to be removed on his death.

The medicinal values of the waters around Malvern have been known to local people for centuries, and Doctor John Wall published a treatise on their efficacy in 1756.

The original cottage was 'gentrified' during the early 19th century and later, the local doctor added extensions, which he used as his waiting room and surgery.

The buildings beyond the pharmacy, a butcher's in 1965, are now a doctor's surgery.

Just 14 years after this photograph was taken, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman Doctor of Medicine, became first woman mayor of an English borough when she took up office in Aldeburgh in 1908

All the buildings on the left have gone, to be replaced by more modern buildings and a car park for the doctor's surgery.

Our photographer is standing on Doctors Bridge over the Bridgewater Canal, and High Street runs left and right from the top of the square.

Dakyn House is named after the Reverend Doctor John Dakyn, founder of the grammar school (far right) and the almshouses.

These were erected in memory of the Roughton family, who served the town as doctors continuously from 1738 until 1933. The avenue leads to the superb west tower of Saints Peter and Paul church.

The good doctor did say that scholars were to be allowed some afternoons off, but only so that they could attend Mass.

Opposite, behind the bus stop, is a local doctor's surgery.

Of interest is the tomb of local benefactor, 'Francis Douce, Doctor of Physick', who died in 1759 and was buried under a pyramid beyond the tower.

Crowley was ahead of his time; he built cottages for his workers and the community had the serv- ices of a doctor, schoolmaster and a parson.

The village itself is on the west bank of the River Trent; from the 12th century it provided the King's Ferry to carry the doctor, the vicar and the mail across the normally placid waterway which eventually

It had been an inn until the 1840s, the Rising Sun, then a doctor's house, and finally became a café in 1896. The trees and wall on the right disappeared in widening the road in the 1950s.

All the buildings on the left have gone, to be replaced by more modern buildings and a car park for the doctor's surgery.

It had been an inn until the 1840s, the Rising Sun, then a doctor's house, and finally became a café in 1896. The trees and wall on the right disappeared in widening the road in the 1950s.

Soon after their birth they had been moved to St Neots, first to their doctor's house, The Shrubbery, in Church Street, and later to a large house, The Gables, in New Street, where people came

He was the first doctor to specialise in 'female ailments'. He invented the sanitary towel, and advocated fresh air and hot water in the labour wards.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Newson's second daughter, fought tenaciously for the right to qualify as a doctor.

In Nelson's day the town was known simply as 'Dock' or 'Plymouth Dock', only acquiring its present name in 1824.

Wealthy mill owners and industrialists found it handy to leave their boats in the shelter of the dock or the canal basin, and leisure became more and more a source of income for Glasson Dock.