David Baker traces the life of an oculist from Somerset who rubbed shoulders with 18th century literary figures Thomas Hardy and Samuel Pepys, as well as treating royalty
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How are a famous diarist, one of England's great novelists and a princess, destined to become Queen of England, connected optically? The man who provides the link is the physician and oculist known as Turberville of Salisbury. He was born at Wayford, near Crewkerne in Somerset in 1612, but lived and practised medicine for most of his life in Salisbury, hence the appellation.
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