Richard Sanders Rogers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian doctor, botanist, orchidologist
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Place of Birth: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
About Richard Sanders Rogers
- Richard Sanders Rogers (2 December 1861 – 28 March 1942) was a distinguished Australian medical doctor, and world authority on Australasian orchids.
- He described over 80 Australian orchid species, three from New Zealand and 30 from New Guinea as well as three new genera including one from New Zealand.
- He was a consulting physician at the Adelaide Hospital and a member of its board.
- He may have been the first to practise hypnotism during surgery, allowing him to remove a cyst from a woman's breast without anaesthetics "while she was still awake and talking to assistants and witnesses standing nearby."
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