Hugh Cairns (surgeon)

Hugh Cairns (surgeon)

Sir Hugh William Bell Cairns (June 26, 1896 - July 18, 1952) was a British surgeon. The Cairns Library at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford is named after him.


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