Charles Clay (December 27, 1801 – September 18, 1893) was an English surgeon, called the "Father of Ovariotomy".
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“When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology told him all the vices were enclosed in Pandora’s box. “What! all!” said the Prince. “Yes, all.” “No,” said the Prince; “curiosity must have been without.””
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
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Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent,
Rider and horse,—friend, foe,—in one red
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—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)