title: Swinford Edwards
text: # Swinford Edwards
  
  Swinford Edwards (1853-1939) was a British surgeon to St Peter's Hospital for Stone and St Mark's Hospital, London, who specialised in surgery of the genito-urinary tract, colon and rectum. He was an early user of the technique of injecting piles. He retired in 1913, and was succeeded by John Percy Lockhart-Mummery.
  
  