BIGG

Henry Heather ( son of Mr. Bigg of London, surgical instrument maker ). b. Dean st. South wark 23 July 1826; studied at St. George’s hospital; a surgical instrument maker in London; made the substitutes for lost limbs of our soldiers wounded in Crime an war; A.I.C.E. 4 March 1862; author of On artificial limbs 1855; Orthopraxy the mechanical treatment of deformities 1865, 3 ed. 1877; The gentle treatment of spinal curvature 1875. d. 56 Wimpole st. Cavendish sq. London 30 April 1881. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxviii , 317–20 (1882).