Eminent doctors: Their lives and their work; Vol. 2 of 2Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas)
History
Eminent doctors: Their lives and their work; Vol. 2 of 2
Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas)
Medicine -- Great Britain -- History; Physicians -- Great Britain
Barlow, Dr. H. C., ii. 120.
Barlow, Dr., on Dr. Bright, ii. 14.
Baron, Dr., Life of E. Jenner, i. 169, 200, 201.
Bayley, Miss, i. 186.
Bell, Benjamin, i. 109, 110.
Bell, George Joseph, i. 243, 259.
Bell (John Hunter’s artist), i. 145, 147, 148.
Bell, Lady; i. 249, 258, 261-263.
BELL, JOHN (1763-1820), and Dr. Gregory, i. 103, 105, 110;
early years, 108;
attacks Monro and Benjamin Bell, 109, 110:
excluded from Infirmary, 110;
success in practice, 111;
operative skill, 111;
works on anatomy and surgery, 112;
marriage, 113;
artistic tastes; 113;
illness and foreign travel, 113;
death, 114;
Observations on Italy, 114;
personal character, 117, 118;
and Charles Bell, 243, 244, ii. 48, 107.
BELL, Sir CHARLES (1774-1842), i. 108, 112, 113;
birth and education, 243;
medical study in Edinburgh, 244;
early works, 244;
goes to London, 245;
artistic anatomy, 245;
lectures and early struggles, 246;
anatomy of expression, 246;
his lively temperament, 247;
first idea of new anatomy of brain, 247;
disappointment of Academy professorship, 248
visit to Haslar Hospital, 248;
marriage, 249;
partnership in Windmill Street School, 249;
elected surgeon to Middlesex Hospital, 250;
goes to Waterloo, 250;
pamphlet on Brain, 251;
crucial experiments on spinal cord, 252;
publishes his discoveries on the nervous system, 253;
elucidates obscure diseases, 254;
muscular sense, 254;
Bridgewater Treatise on the Hand, 255;
becomes professor at College of Surgeons, 256;
at London University, 257;
retires from latter, 257;
fly-fishing, 257;
his happy temperament, 258;
knighted, 259;
elected Professor at Edinburgh, 259;
coldness of fellow-professors, 260;
excitement at proposed changes, 260;
journey to London, 260, 261;
his last day, 261;
_Edinburgh Review_ on, 262;
Jeffrey’s Epitaph on, 262.
Bell, William, i. 242.
BENNETT, JOHN HUGHES (1812-1875);
early training, ii. 209;
studies at Edinburgh, 210;
studies in Paris and in Germany, 210;
treatise on cod-liver oil, 210;
lectures in Edinburgh, 211;
polyclinical course, 211, 212;
literary work, 212;
elected Professor, 212;
clinical teaching, 213;
and Leucocythæmia, 213;
views on pneumonia, 214;
principal works, 214, 215;
character, 215, 216;
illness, operation, and death, 216.
Berkeley, Admiral, and vaccination, i. 192.
Bishops’ licenses to practise medicine, i. 10.
Blackhall, Dr., ii. 19.
Black, Joseph, i. 84, 90, 92, 96.
Blane, Sir Gilbert, i. 192.
Blicke, Sir C., i. 227.
Blizard, Sir W., i. 144, 228.
Booker, Rev. Dr., i. 185.
Botany at Edinburgh, i. 72.
Bowman, J. Eddowes, ii. 261.
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