William Henry Harsant

W. H. Harsant, who died on 10th February, at his Clifton residence, in his eighty-third year, was born at Epsom, a?d educated at the City of London School. Entering Guys Hospital, he qualified as L.S.A. in 1873, the year following he took the M.R.C.S., and was appointed House Surged1 and afterwards Resident Obstetric Officer at Guy's. Leaving London, he was appointed House Surgeon at the Bristol General Hospital, and in 1877 acquired the F.R.C.S. (England)In 1879 Harsant was appointed Assistant Surgeon on the honorary staff of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and in the same year initiated a new special department for Diseases of the Ear' He became full Surgeon to the Infirmary in 1885, and resigning in 1902, was appointed Honorary Consulting Surgeon to tli*s institution, which owed him a great debt of gratitude for twenty-three years of assiduous and painstaking work. ,