CHAPTER III 



MARRIAGE AND EARLY PROFESSIONAL LIFE 



FOR his services as Assistant-Surgeon to the 63rd 

 Regiment during the war, Flower received the 

 medal with clasps for Alma, Inkerman, Balaclava, 

 and Sebastopol direct from the Queen's hand, as 

 well as the Turkish medal later. Recent experience 

 of the devoted service of medical men of all ages 

 and position who volunteered for the South African 

 War has familiarised us also with their return to 

 active civil life and the resumption of their profession 

 in London. Flower's position was an analogous one. 

 After his health had recovered from the temporary 

 breakdown caused by the hardships of the campaign, 

 he resigned the army, and in 1857 took the diploma 

 of F.R.C.S. 1 In 1859 he was appointed to the 

 office of Assistant -Surgeon to the Middlesex 

 Hospital, to which duties were added those of 

 Lecturer upon Anatomy and Curator of the Anatomi- 

 cal Museum of the Hospital. 



But his work at this time was not identified 



1 On January 3, 1856, he notes, " I took my first fee, i : is., from Uncle 

 John Greaves for curing his finger." 



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