For almost 200 years there had been a doctor resident in Bow. I was the twenty-ninth.
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THE MEDICAL GENTLEMEN OF BOW
Batisihill
John Battishill was born in 1804, the son of a wealthy landowner in Spreyton. He spent almost all his life in Spreyton, where he was, it seems, the only surgeon. He married Alicia Yolland from Crediton in 1871; they had two children. He never had a contract with either of the Poor Law Unions in Crediton or Okehampton. He died at his residence, Bush House in Spreyton, in 1874.
