Caesar Hawkins

Caesar (or Cæsar) Henry Hawkins FRS (19 September 1798 – 20 July 1884) was a British surgeon.

He was president of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1852 and again in 1861 and delivered the Hunterian oration in 1849.

For long he was noted as the only surgeon who had succeeded in the operation of ovariotomy in a London hospital.

A successful operator, he nevertheless was attached to conservative surgery, and was always more anxious to teach his pupils how to save a limb than how to remove it.

[2] He re-printed his contributions to the medical journals in two volumes, 1874, including papers on Tumours, Excision of the Ovarium, Hydrophobia and Snake-bites, Stricture of the Colon, and The Relative Claims of Sir Charles Bell and Magendie to the Discovery of the Functions of the Spinal Nerves.