Despite this debacle at the beginning of his career, John Ranby had a very high opinion of himself. He described his most glorious moments as a sergeant-surgeon in the English army in the years that followed in his book The Method of Treating Gunshot Wounds, published in 1744. One of his heroic deeds was the treatment of Prince William, the youngest son of King George II and the late Queen Caroline, also known as ‘The Butcher’. William fought alongside his father against the French at the Battle of Dettingen in 1743, during the War of the Austrian Succession. It was the last time in English
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