Only Connect - Isambard Brunel <> Samuel Cartwright
How are these sitters connected?
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
by John Callcott Horsley
1857
NPG 979
Samuel Cartwright
by Benedetto Pistrucci
NPG 4983
The connection
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was one of many well-known patients treated by the surgeon Samuel Cartwright, who invented the appointment system.
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