Edward Nourse (surgeon)

Edward Nourse, FRS (1701–1761) was an English surgeon.

His father, also called Edward Nourse (d. 1738) was a surgeon in Oxford.

His brother was John Nourse the bookseller.

Another brother Charles Nourse was a doctor in Oxford who took over their father's practice in that town.

[1] On 2 December 1717, he was apprenticed until 1725 to John Dobyns, an assistant surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.