BOWMAN, Sir W. (_b._ 1816); early life, ii. 261; studies medicine at Birmingham, 261; at Dublin and King’s College, London, 261; becomes demonstrator and curator, 262; Continental studies, 262; physiological papers, 262; scientific writing, 263; appointed to Ophthalmic Hospital, 263; eye practice, 264; professorship of physiology, 264; baronetcy, 265; St. John’s House, 265; assist Miss Nightingale’s work, 265; supports physiological experiments, 265; lofty view of surgery, 266. Boyle, Robert, i. 54. Bridgewater Treatises, i. 255. BRIGHT, RICHARD (1789-1858), ii. 5; birth, 14; studies at Edinburgh and Guy’s, 15; journey through Iceland, 15; enters at Cambridge, 16; travels on Continent, 16, 17; at Waterloo, 16; appointments at Fever Hospital and at Guy’s, 17; Dr. Wilks on, 18; writes on kidney diseases, 18-20; on pneumonia, 20; on cerebral and spinal diseases, 21; practice, and death, 21; character, 22, 23; and Holland, 63, 64. Bristol Medical School, ii. 127. British Association, ii. 183. British Medical Association, i. 281, ii. 162, 177. _British Medical Journal_, ii. 154, 248, 265. Brodie, Alexander, i. 286. Brodie, Peter, i. 288. Brodie, Rev. Mr., i. 287. BRODIE, Sir BENJAMIN (1783-1862); ancestry, i. 286; birth, 287; early years and education, 288; an ensign at fourteen, 288; medical study in London, 288, 290; non-medical friends, 289; the Academical Society, 289; becomes demonstrator at Windmill Street, 290; appointed Assistant-Surgeon to St. George’s, 290; lectures on Surgery, 291; physiological studies, 291, 292; marriage, 292; work on Diseases of Joints, 292; professional success, 294; professorship at College of Surgeons, 294; subcutaneous surgery, 294; court appointments, and baronetcy, 295; opposition to impostors, 296; his numerous presidencies, 297; autobiography, 297; operations on his eyes, 298; death, 298; character of, 298-303; character of Lawrence, 308. Brougham, Lord, i. 246, ii. 34, 43. Brown, Baker, ii. 110, 111. Brown, Dr. John (Horæ Subsecivæ), on Sydenham, i. 59. Brown, Dr. John (founder of Brownian System), i. 98. Brown Square School, ii. 36, 37. Buckland, F., and John Hunter’s remains, i. 163. Budd, George, ii. 125. Budd, Samuel, ii. 125. BUDD, WILLIAM (1811-1880); early life, ii. 125; medical studies, 125; investigates typhoid fever at North Tawton, 125-126; germ theory, 126-128; removes to Clifton, 127; opposition to his views, 128; measures against cholera, 128, 129; against rinderpest, 129; his writings, 129; incessant work, 130; views on pulmonary consumption, 130; death, 130; Murchison and, 132. Buller, Justice, and John Hunter, i. 151. Burke, Edmund, i. 91.