Transcriber’s Note Italic text displayed as: _text_ Bold text displayed as: =text= EMINENT DOCTORS. Ballantyne Press BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. EDINBURGH AND LONDON EMINENT DOCTORS: Their Lives and their Work. 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. [Illustration: Bookmaker’s Mark] LONDON: JOHN HOGG, PATERNOSTER ROW. [_All rights reserved._] CONTENTS OF VOL. II. CHAP. PAGE XI. ADDISON, BRIGHT, AND THE DISEASES WHICH BEAR THEIR NAMES 1 XII. LISTON, SYME, LIZARS, AND THE NEWER SURGERY 24 XIII. BAILLIE, HALFORD, CHAMBERS, AND HOLLAND, THE FASHIONABLE AND COURTLY PHYSICIANS 51 XIV. SIR WILLIAM FERGUSSON AND CONSERVATIVE SURGERY 71 XV. SIR JAMES SIMPSON AND ANÆSTHETICS 83 XVI. SIR SPENCER WELLS AND OVARIOTOMY 105 XVII. SIR WILLIAM JENNER, BUDD, MURCHISON, AND TYPHOID FEVER 118 XVIII. SIR JOSEPH LISTER AND ANTISEPTIC SURGERY 135 XIX. SIR THOMAS WATSON, SIR DOMINIC CORRIGAN, SIR WILLIAM GULL, AND CLINICAL MEDICINE 148 XX. SIR JAMES PAGET AND SURGICAL PATHOLOGY 167 XXI. WILLIAMS, STOKES, AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST 178 XXII. SIR HENRY THOMPSON AND CREMATION 194 XXIII. GRAVES, HUGHES BENNETT, AND CLINICAL TEACHING 201 XXIV. CONOLLY, MAUDSLEY, AND MENTAL DISEASES 217 XXV. EMINENT SPECIALISTS: SIR ERASMUS WILSON AND SKIN DISEASES; MORELL MACKENZIE AND THROAT DISEASES; COBBOLD AND INTERNAL PARASITES 239 XXVI. EMINENT SPECIALISTS—_continued_: SIR W. BOWMAN, BRUDENELL CARTER, AND EYE DISEASES; TOYNBEE, HINTON, AND EAR DISEASES 260 XXVII. SIR R. CHRISTISON, SWAINE TAYLOR, AND POISON DETECTION 285 XXVIII. PARKES, GUY, SIMON, AND PUBLIC HEALTH 295