He was a surgeon in the king's army, which subsequently went south into England; however, Wiseman was taken prisoner in the Battle of Worcester [1651]. Following a short period of imprisonment, he set up practice in London. In 1652, he qualified as a member of the Barber-Surgeons' Company, serving for a time as assistant to Edward Molines of St. Thomas' Hospital. In 1654, Wiseman was arrested on a charge of having connived in the attempt of a Royalist prisoner to escape from the Tower. Wiseman was himself taken to the Tower and from there transferred to Lambeth House, which was being used as a prison. 

The evidence against him appears to have been weak and he was released; however, as a Royalist, life cannot have been easy in Cromwell’s Commonwealth of England. In 1657, he took up service in the Spanish Navy, where he remained until early in 1660 when he returned to London. Charles II returned to London in May 1660 and Wiseman was appointed "Surgeon in Ordinary to the Person" in June. In 1672, he was made sergeant-surgeon and principal surgeon to the king. He died in Bath, where he had gone in search of better health [he probably had pulmonary tuberculosis], and was buried in St.Paul's Church, Covent Garden, on August 29, 1676. 

Wiseman's first book appeared in 1672; it was intended primarily for naval surgeons who, he said, seldom troubled their cabins with books. It dealt largely with gunshot wounds, fractures, and venereal disease. However, Wiseman is best remembered for his book called Severall Chirurgicall Treatises [1676], which was very successful and became the authoritative English surgical text for many years.

The Richard Wiseman medal has been commissioned from Spink in London and the medals have been struck using metal melted down from artillery shell casings discharged by 45 Commando Royal Marines on Operation HERRICK in 2009. The obverse shows a portrait of Richard Wiseman; the reverse demonstrates the tri-service emblem of the United Kingdom’s Defence Medical Services. The inscription on the reverse of the medal, “PAX QUÆRITUR BELLO” [Peace is sought through war] was the motto of Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth of England. After deliberation of the Academic Committee of the Military Surgery Conference, the medal will be awarded to the best podium presentation at the annual Military Surgery Conference.

References: 
1. Portrait courtesy of The Royal College of Surgeons of England
2. Smith AD. Richard Wiseman: his contributions to English surgery. Bull N Y Acad Med. 1970 
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