Career
He was admitted to membership in the Royal College of Surgeons in 1801. In 1816 he began a series of lectures in surgery to the officers of the army and navy, which he continued for nearly 30 years. His principal works are:
On Gunshot Wounds of the Extremities Requiring the Different Operations of Amputations, and their After Treatment (1814.
Sixth edition, 1855)
Lectures on the Operative Surgery of the Eye (1823.
Third edition, 1838)
On the Anatomy and Diseases of the Urinary and Sexual Organs (third edition, 1843)
Guthrie"s muscle—The sphincter urethrae membranaceae. The American Illustrated Medical Dictionary (1938).
