Edward Berdoe (1836 – 1916) was a physician during the Crimean and American Civil Wars, educated in England and Scotland. He was also an authority on the poet Robert Browning, and was on the committee of the London Browning Society from its beginning in 1881 to its dissolution in 1894. He has been credited with writing the novel St. Bernard’s. The romance of a medical student by Aesculapius Scalpel, which went into a second edition in 1888.