DOCTOR JAMES BARLOW

Doctor, died aged 72 years.

In 1822 he published a volume entitled "Essays in Surgery and Midwifery" with practical observations and select cases which achieved considerable fame, printed by T. Rogerson, Blackburn, and in it he alludes to several local practitioners including Abraham Chew.
On Tuesday, 22 August 1826, he carried out the first successful caesarian operation on the wife of Edmund Forrest of Salmesbury,
the child survived and the mother did until the following morning.
He was the first English General Practitioner to do a successful caesarian operation on a living woman in 1791.