He resigned his official connection with the college in 1873. In 1852 South went to Sweden, where he introduced the vegetable marrow. As a reward the Swedish Horticultural Society at Stockholm, at the instigation of his friend Retzius, awarded to its Linnæan medal of bronze. Recognised as a Latinist, he was selected to examine articled pupils in Latin before they were apprenticed to the Royal College of Surgeons of England. South died at Blackheath Park on 8 January 1882, and was buried in Charlton cemetery. He was religious, and threw himself into church work, especially with Sunday schools. In 1831 he was a prime mover in establishing the Surrey Zoological and Botanical Society. Works Besides tracts on surgical and religious subjects and the articles on the "Zoology of the Invertebrata" in the Encyclopædia Metropolitana, South wrote: A Short Description of the Bones, 1825; 2nd edit. London, 1828; 3rd edit. 1837. Household Surgery, London, 1847; 2nd edit. 1850; 3rd edit. 1851; 4th edit. 1851; 5th edit. (called in error 4th edit.), 1880. Memorials of the Craft of Surgery, edited by D'Arcy Power, with an introduction by Sir James Paget, London, 1886. He translated: Adolph Wilhelm Otto's Compendium of Human and Comparative Pathological Anatomy, London, 1831; Maximilian Joseph von Chelius's System of Surgery, 2 vols., London, 1847. He interwove with this work much of his own surgical experience. The last twenty years of South's life were spent in gathering material for a history of English surgery; it was edited by D'Arcy Power in 1886 as Memorials of the Craft of Surgery. South also edited the St. Thomas's Hospital Reports for 1836, and assisted J. H. Green in preparing the second and third editions of The Dissector's Manual. Family South was twice married; first, in 1832, to Mrs. John Wrench, the second daughter of Thomas Lett of Dulwich House. After her death, in 1864, he married, the following year, Emma, daughter of John Louis Lemmé of Antwerp and London, the niece of his friend J. H. Green. There were children of both marriages. Notes Attribution 1797 births 1882 deaths English surgeons English medical writers People from Southwark English male non-fiction writers