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
COBBOLD, T. SPENCER (_b._ 1828);
early life, ii. 255;
studies at Edinburgh, 255;
geological studies, 255, 256;
appointments in London, 256;
dissections at Zoological Gardens, 256;
practice as a specialist, 257;
connection with Veterinary College, 257;
lectures on parasites, 258, 259.
Cod-liver oil, ii. 186, 187, 210, 211.
Colet, i. 3.
Collyer, Robert, and anæsthetics, ii. 96, 97.
Columbus, Realdus, i. 14, 29.
Combe, William, i. 130, 131.
Comparative anatomy, i. 80.
CONOLLY, JOHN (1794-1867), ii. 160, 217;
early life, 221;
enters militia, 221;
studies at Edinburgh, 222;
practises at Chichester, 222;
at Stratford, 222;
appointed Professor at London University, 222;
settles at Warwick, 222;
studies insanity, 222, 223;
work on Indications of Insanity, 223;
appointed to Hanwell, 225;
abolishes mechanical restraint, 226;
clinical lectures, 227;
interest in patients, 228;
retirement from Hanwell, 228;
at Earlswood Asylum, 229, 230;
private practice, 230;
writings and lectures, 231;
writes on Hamlet, 231;
death, 231.
Conservative surgery, ii. 47, 71-81.
Consumption Hospital, ii. 185.
_Contemporary Review_, ii. 197, 198.
Cooper, Bransby, i. 209, 221, 222.
Cooper family, the, i. 202.
COOPER, Sir ASTLEY (1768-1841), i. 113, 146, 152;
early life, 202;
escapades, 203;
pupilage with Cline, 203;
studies at Edinburgh, 204;
becomes lecturer, 204;
visit to Paris, 204;
his style of lecturing, 205;
a severe accident, 206;
his personal influence, 206;
appearance and habits, 207;
sympathy with mental suffering, 207;
his servant Charles, 208;
Cooper and the resurrectionists, 208;
their extortions, 209;
his determination to have specimens, 210;
dissection of dogs, 211;
of an elephant, 211;
income, 211;
gives up politics on appointment to Guy’s surgeoncy, 212;
operates on tympanic membrane, 212;
membership of societies, 213;
his store of information, 214;
operations for aneurism, 214;
work on Hernia, 214;
life in New Broad Street, 215;
in the hospital and lecture-room, 216;
his overpowering influence, 217;
graceful operations, 218;
peremptory orders, 218;
a big fee, 219;
his limited pharmacopœia, 219;
lectures at College of Surgeons, 220;
ties the aorta, 220;
operates on George IV., 221;
Sir Astley as an examiner, 221;
foundation of Guy’s separate medical school, 222;
Presidency of the College of Surgeons, 222;
life in the country, 223;
horse-keeping, 223;
temporary retirement, 223;
later works, 224;
rapid movements, 224;
death, monument and portrait, 225;
estimate of Cooper, 225;
his own character of himself, 226;
and Abernethy, 235;
and Charles Bell, 248;
and Brodie, 295, 296.
Cooper, William, i. 203, 212.
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