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Andrew Liddell
was the son of Rev. Francis Liddell, minister of the church of Scotland of
Lauriston place Edinburgh. He arrived in Australia in January 1840 as Surgeon on
the George Fife.
He was appointed to draft a
set of rules for the new hospital at Maitland and was Chairman of the Maitland
Benevolent Asylum during the 1840's
He performed and assisted in many surgical operations at
Maitland Hospital.
In 1843 an account of
one of his procedures was reported in the Maitland Mercury:
RESTORING A NOSE - This operation has lately been
performed by Mr. Liddell, surgeon, of this town on a
assigned servant of Richard Jones, Esq., Bolwarra.
It is usually performed, as in the present instance,
where accident of disease has destroyed a part of
the nose, by dissecting a suitable portion of skin
from the forehead of the patient leaving only a
slender attachment, whereby its vitality is for a
time maintained; this skin is then adapted to the
edges of the deficiency, previously pared, in order
to reduce them to the condition of a recent wound.
When the operation is successful, union of the parts
takes place in three or four days. By this
operation, which is termed by surgeons the rinoplastic art, deficiencies of other parts of the
body, as the lip, ear, etc have at times been
usefully restored.
Margaret Liddell, wife of Andrew died in 1871 and Andrew
Liddell died aged 71 in 1877.
Note** A Dr. Liddell with wife and child arrived
in South Australia on the Glenswilly in 1839 with the intention of
travelling on to Sydney. (possibly William?)
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