Richard Wiseman (surgeon)

[1] He was personal surgeon to King Charles II, and author of a medical work called Severall Chirurgical Treatises.

[1] During the First English Civil War, he joined the royalist army of the west, then under the nominal command of the Prince of Wales.

After the defeat at Truro, on his own account, Wiseman was the only surgeon who continuously attended Charles, the Prince of Wales, from the west of England to France, Holland, and Scotland, in the years 1646–1650.

From The Hague Wiseman accompanied Charles II to Breda, Flanders and back to France, arriving at St. Germains in August 1649.

Early in 1654 he was rearrested on a charge of assisting Read, a patient, to escape from the Tower of London, and in March 1654 he was sent a prisoner to Lambeth House.

Ten days after the arrival of Charles II in London, on 8 June 1660, Wiseman was made royal surgeon in ordinary.

[2] Wiseman's works are written in a plain and simple style; they were used by Samuel Johnson, in the compilation of his dictionary, as a mine of surgical nomenclature.

His widow married Thomas Harrison of Gray's Inn, the lawyer who settled her husband's affairs, and died in February 1678.