John Badley (surgeon)

He studied medicine at Saint Bartholomew's Hospital in London where he was a favorite pupil of John Abernethy a leading surgeon at the turn of the 18th century and himself a student of Hunter.

Despite Abernethy's desire for him to remain in London, his father's poor health and subsequent death caused him to return to Dudley where in 1810 he married his first cousin Mary Fisher Badley.

As he sat resting on a garden seat, one of the younger generations who had some skill in photography seized the opportunity to get by a ruse the photograph for which he knew the old man would not knowingly consent to sit.

As though merely to give him a few moments' interest in a youngster's hobby, he brought out his camera and set it up in front of him just to show him how it worked.

The volume describes medical cases and surgeries that he witnessed during the early 1800s while working under Abernethy's supervision at St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

Photograph of John Badley, Surgeon of Dudley taken ca. 1865 unawares by the grandson of a patient
Memorial to John Badley, F.R.C.S. in the nave of Saint Edmund's Church, Dudley.
The marker above the Badley family vault at Saint Edmund's Church, Dudley.