Edward Tilt

He was born at Brighton on 30 January 1815, and received his medical education first at St. George's Hospital and then in Paris, where he graduated M.D.

[1] Tilt acted as travelling physician in the family of Count Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov during 1848 to 1850.

He settled in London about 1850, devoting himself to midwifery and the diseases of women: he had learned from Joseph Récamier in Paris the use of the speculum in gynaecology.

[1] In his practice Tilt opposed excessive surgery; but accepted some applications of clitoridectomy and leeches.

[1] The title of Cavaliere of the Crown of Italy was conferred upon him in 1875, and he was at the time of his death a corresponding fellow of the academies of medicine of Turin, Athens, and New York.