Eminent doctors: Their lives and their work; Vol. 2 of 2Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas)
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Eminent doctors: Their lives and their work; Vol. 2 of 2
Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas)
Medicine -- Great Britain -- History; Physicians -- Great Britain
Abercrombie’s, Sir Ralph, Expedition, i. 182.
Aberdeen University, i. 100, ii. 246.
ABERNETHY, JOHN (1764-1831), i. 146, 162, 168;
early years, 227;
apprenticeship, 227;
pupil of Pott and John Hunter, 228;
appointed assistant-surgeon to St. Bartholomew’s, 228;
his lectures, 229;
dramatic style, 230, 231;
his method, 232;
apt phrases, 233;
roughness and eccentricity, 233, 234;
impatience, 235;
gratitude of an Irishman, 235, 236;
anecdotes, 236, 237;
surgical and physiological essays, 237;
“read my book,” 238;
marriage, 239;
becomes full surgeon, 239;
failing health, 240;
resigns appointments, 240;
death, 241;
Abernethy and Brodie, 289;
and Lawrence, 303-305, 307.
Academy of Science, French, i. 283.
Acland, Sir H., on Brodie, i. 300-303;
on Stokes, ii. 189, 192.
Acupressure, ii. 102.
Addison Family, the, ii. 1, 2.
ADDISON, THOMAS (1793-1860), education, ii. 2;
at Edinburgh, 2;
settles in London, 3;
dislike of specialism, 3;
appointments at Guy’s, 4, 5;
early works, 4;
writes on practice of medicine, &c., 5;
on disease of supra-renal capsules (Addison’s disease), 6, 7;
clinical teaching, 7;
his practicality, 8;
Dr. Wilks on, 8-10, 11;
bluntness and shyness, 10, 11;
Continental reputation, 11;
Dr. Lonsdale on, 12;
marriage, 12, 13;
death, 13;
Addison Ward, 13;
association with Dr. Bright, 17, 21.
Aikin, John, on Harvey, i. 47;
on Cullen, 95.
Akenside, Mark, i. 99.
Aldersgate School of Medicine, i. 279, ii. 241.
Aldus Manutius, i. 2, 3.
Alison, Dr. W. P., i. 105, ii. 180, 188.
Anæsthetics, ii. 95-100.
Anatomical Lectures, i. 18, 75-79, 84, 109, 121, 135, 138, 204, 205,
229, 246, 289, ii. 25, 26, 36, 37, 48, 49, 73, 226.
Anatomists, William Hunter on, i. 125.
Anatomy in London, i. 18;
in Edinburgh, 72, 73;
stealing corpses for, 77;
the resurrectionists, 208-211;
at Royal Academy, 247.
—— Comparative. See Comparative Anatomy.
Anderson, Dr. James, on Cullen, i. 96, 98.
Aneurism, i. 153, 214, ii. 44.
Antiseptic Surgery, ii. 46, 114, 141-147.
Arthur, Prince, i. 3.
Aubrey on Harvey, i. 35, 38, 48, 49.
Babington, Dr., on Brodie, i. 299.
BAILLIE, Dr. MATTHEW (1761-1823) on William Hunter, i. 124;
completes his uncle’s work, 128;
his uncle’s bequests to him, 130, 132;
at John Hunter’s death, 158;
and Marshall Hall, 267, 269;
his practicality, ii. 51;
education, 52;
assists William Hunter, 53;
writes on morbid anatomy, 53;
physician to St. George’s Hospital, 53;
physician to George III., 54;
manners and generosity, 54, 55;
death, 55;
bequest to College of Physicians, 55.
Balderson, Charles, i. 208, 211, 215.
Balfour, Sir A., i. 72.
Barber Surgeons, i. 18, 72.
Barclay, Dr. (anatomical lecturer), ii. 25, 35.
Bark, Peruvian, i. 59.
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