BY G. T. BETTANY, M.A. (Camb.), B.Sc. (Lond.), F.L.S. AUTHOR OF “FIRST LESSONS IN PRACTICAL BOTANY,” “ELEMENTARY PHYSIOLOGY,” ETC. AND LECTURER ON BOTANY IN GUY’S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL. “There is to me an inexpressible charm in the lives of the good, brave, learned men, whose only objects have been, and are, to alleviate pain and to save life.” — G. A. Sala. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: JOHN HOGG, PATERNOSTER ROW. [ All rights reserved. ]...

Medical Biography has not taken its due place in the thoughts of our countrymen, nor has it received deserved attention from literary men. Anecdotes of big fees, brilliant operations, brusque actions, or suave politeness, have too exclusively contributed to form the popular idea of eminent physicians and surgeons. Aikin’s incomplete “Biographical Memoirs of Medicine,” Macmichael’s “Lives of British Physicians,” and Pettigrew’s “Medical Portrait Gallery,” have been the chief collective records of

In the front rank of practical physicians in England stands Thomas Sydenham , descended from an ancient Somersetshire family, one branch of which migrated into Dorsetshire in the reign of Henry VIII., and settled at Winford Eagle. Here he was born in 1624. We know nothing of his early years till we find him entered at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in 1642. His studies were interrupted by Charles I.’s residence there, and it is very probable that he took arms on the side of the Parliament, while it is c

Modern preventive medicine may be said to date from the introduction of inoculation for smallpox in the early part of the eighteenth century. It is much more profitable to dwell on the history of the second step in this direction, a far greater one, due to the genius of one man, Edward Jenner, whose Life by Dr. Baron, though not a biographical masterpiece, is the source of much valuable information. The name of Stephen Jenner had been handed down from generation to generation in Gloucestershire,

BY G. T. BETTANY, M.A. (Camb.), B.Sc. (Lond.), F.L.S. AUTHOR OF “FIRST LESSONS IN PRACTICAL BOTANY,” “ELEMENTARY PHYSIOLOGY,” ETC. AND LECTURER ON BOTANY IN GUY’S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL. “There is to me an inexpressible charm in the lives of the good, brave, learned men, whose only objects have been, and are, to alleviate pain and to save life.” — G. A. Sala. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: JOHN HOGG, PATERNOSTER ROW. [ All rights reserved. ] EMINENT DOCTORS. Operative dexterity, as was natura

One cannot more strikingly emphasise the change which has taken place during the present century in the views and practice of medical men than by quoting from Sir Henry Halford’s biographical notice of Baillie, the nephew of William and John Hunter, and brother of Joanna Baillie. Here we have Halford acknowledging a current sentiment against physical examination of the patient. “He (Baillie) appeared to lay a great stress upon the information which he might derive from the external examination o

The Nestor of the medical profession, Sir Thomas Watson, died in 1882, at the great age of ninety, universally beloved and honoured. Yet he had written but one extended work, the “Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Physic,” and had made no striking discovery. But to have written a book which every cultivated practitioner reads, and reads with delight and satisfaction, is an achievement given to few, many though there be who aim at it. And Sir Thomas Watson’s personal character was as uni

The foremost surgical philosopher and orator of his day, Sir James Paget was called to occupy the presidential chair of the International Medical Congress which met in London in August 1881. This was the culmination of a long career of scientific usefulness and successful practice. Sir James is a younger brother of Dr. G. E. Paget, Regius Professor of Medicine in the University of Cambridge, and was born at Yarmouth in Norfolk in 1814. After a course of professional study at St. Bartholomew’s Ho

The mode of disposing of the remains of the dead is naturally one upon which doctors may be expected to have a good deal to say. As guardians of the health of the living, the dangers and diseases which the material remnants of our deceased friends may occasion the living must concern the medical profession. The increasingly dense aggregation of human beings in great towns has impressed the last two generations with the necessity of doing something to prevent disease from spreading through delay

Although the detection of crimes of poisoning is but one of the departments of service which the medical profession is able to render to the law, yet it is one which has very largely attracted public attention, owing to the many awful aspects of death by poisoning, and the helplessness which mankind has always felt in regard to these crimes. Latterly the skill displayed in the detection of the existence of poisons after the death of the victims has set at rest many of the doubts as to the certai

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