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
Cornelio Vitelli, i. 2.
CORRIGAN, Sir DOMINIC (1802-1880);
education and medical studies, ii. 155;
papers on heart diseases, 156, 157;
Corrigan’s pulse, 156, 157;
appointments, 158;
becomes M.P. for Dublin, 159;
death, 159.
Coulton, ii. 97.
Cowley on Harvey, i. 39.
Coxe, Dr. Thomas, i. 53.
Cremation, ii. 116, 117, 194, 198, 199.
Cromwell, i. 73.
Cruickshank, i. 127, 130, 149.
CULLEN, WILLIAM (1710-1790);
birth, i. 87;
education at Glasgow, 87;
apprenticeship, 88;
goes to West Indies as ship’s surgeon, 88;
assists in a London shop, 88;
begins practice, 88;
receives a legacy, 88;
further studies at Edinburgh, 88;
friendship of Duke of Hamilton, 89;
influences William Hunter, 89;
marriage, 89;
removal to Glasgow, 89;
founds medical school there, 90;
his lectures and discoveries, 90, 91;
becomes Professor of Medicine at Glasgow, 91;
friendship with Adam Smith and David Hume, 91;
appointed Professor of Chemistry at Edinburgh, 91;
his clinical lectures, 92;
his candour, 92, 93;
letter to his son, 94, 95;
appointed to Chair of Physic, 95;
his works, 96;
personal influence, 96, 97;
kindness to students, 97;
Cullen and John Brown, 98;
death, 98;
personal aspect and habits, 98;
agreement with Gregory, 100;
friendship with William Hunter, 91, 94, 120, 122.
Czermak, ii. 251.
Dancaster, William, i. 13.
Darwin, Charles, anticipation of, i. 172.
Davy, Sir Humphrey, i. 172, ii. 95, 96.
Dogs, Caius on, i. 21.
Donders, ii. 260.
Donellan, Captain, trial of, i. 150.
Douglas, Dr., i. 120, 121.
Down, Dr. Langdon, on Conolly, ii. 229.
Drummond, George, i. 78.
Dublin Medical School, ii. 105, 155, 189-191, 201-208.
Duncan, Dr., on Monro _secundus_, i. 85, 86.
Edinburgh University and Medical School, i. 71-118, 204, 213, 224,
259, 260; ii. 2, 15, 25-28, 35-50, 56, 59, 63, 64, 73, 85-94,
99-103, 125, 130, 131, 138, 149, 155, 204, 210-216, 221, 222,
286, 289.
Edward VI., i. 14.
Elizabeth, Queen, i. 14, 18, 23.
Elliot, Robert, Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh, i. 75.
Ent, Sir G., i. 40, 41.
Erasmus, i. 3, 4, 5.
Esquirol and lunacy, ii. 220.
Expectant treatment, i. 59.
Fabricius, i. 26, 29.
Faraday, ii. 96, 181.
FERGUSON, Sir WILLIAM (1808-1877), and conservative surgery, ii. 71,
72;
early years, 72;
studies anatomy under Knox, 72, 73;
assists Knox, 73;
his Edinburgh appointments, 73;
removal to London, 74;
operative skill, 74, 75;
conservation of limbs, 75;
lithotomy, 76;
excision of joints, 76, 77;
hare-lip and cleft-palate, 77;
invents instruments, 78;
careful planning of operations, 78, 79;
“Practical Surgery,” 79;
social character and manners, 80-82;
appointments, 81;
President of College of Surgeons, 81;
death, 82.
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