Sharp is credited with first advocating the establishment of local museums in Britain and for putting science on the curricula of British public schools.
He completed his training in surgery at Borough hospitals in London and became a qualified surgeon in 1827.
He worked for the Bradford Infirmary and became its senior surgeon in 1837 although he was still interested in science in general.
[2] Sharp became interested in homoeopathy, and over the next forty years he published over 60 papers dealing with this subject which he believed central to combining other more conventional approaches to medicine.
Unlike most homoeopaths he believed in antipraxy which proposes that some drugs may have totally different results at different doses.