Francis Cornelius Webb

[1] On 25 September 1841 Webb was apprenticed to James Sheppard, a surgeon at Stonehouse, and in 1843 he joined the medical school of University College, London.

His first significant work was an article on "The Sweating Sickness in England", published in the Sanitary Review and Journal of Public Health for July 1857, later republished separately.

In 1858 he wrote an essay on "Metropolitan Hygiene of the Past" was written by Webb for the Sanitary Review; it was reprinted separately in the same year.

Webb published also Biographies of Sir Benjamin Brodie, Bart., and of P. C. Price, Surgeon to King's College Hospital, London, 1865.

[1] On 10 February 1852 Webb married Sarah Schröder, daughter of Joseph Croucher of Great James's Street, Buckingham Gate.