Paul Buissière
Paul Buissière or Bussière (died 1739) was a French surgeon and anatomist, who settled in England. Life Buissière was a Huguenot, who practised in the principality of Orange before emigrating first to Copenhagen. He was naturalised in England on 10 October 1688, and built a reputation as a practitioner in Suffolk Street, Pall Mall, London. He was the surgeon who attended the leading statesman Robert Harley when he was stabbed at the Council table by the double agent Antoine de Guiscard, in March 1711; he also attended the assassin after his committal to Newgate Prison. Many years later he was consulted on the last illness of Queen Caroline of Ansbach in November 1737. He was then thought to be at least 80 years old, but was still regarded as the finest physician in London. Buissière was one of the first to introduce a course of lectures on anatomy and physiology into England. He had been admitted a foreign member of the Royal Society on 22 May 1700, was placed on the home list in 1713, and chosen one of the council in 1719. Buissière died at his house in Suffolk Street in January 1739, and left money to the French