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
HARVEY, WILLIAM (1578-1657);
birth, i. 26;
at Cambridge and Padua, 26;
settles in London, 26;
physician to St. Bartholomew’s, 27;
Lumleian lecturer, 27;
expounds new views on heart and circulation, 27;
Treatise on Motion of Heart and Blood, 30-33;
Harvey called crack-brained, 35;
physician to James I. and Charles I., 35;
travels on the Continent, 36;
attendance on Charles I., 36, 37;
at Edgehill, 37, 38;
at Oxford, 38;
studies hatching of eggs, 38;
appointed Warden of Merton College, 38;
his museum destroyed, 39;
leaves Oxford, 39;
lives with his brothers, 40;
entrusts Treatise on Generation to Dr. Ent, 41;
its publication, 42;
Harvey’s lost medical works, 43;
benefactions to College of Physicians, 44-47;
declines Presidency, 45;
infirmity in old age, 46;
death and burial, 46;
will, 46, 47;
personal character, 47;
personal appearance, 47, 48;
lofty intellectual position, 49;
habits, 49, 50;
Latinity, 50;
memorials in College of Physicians, 50;
William Hunter on, 126;
records of, in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, ii. 169.
Harvey’s brothers, i. 26, 40, 46, 50.
Harwood, Dr., on William Hunter’s library, i. 129.
Hawkins, Cæsar, ii. 110.
Hazelwood School, ii. 261.
Healing, Caius’ Method of, i. 22.
Helmholtz, ii. 260.
Henry VII., i. 1, 2, 4.
Henry VIII., i. 4, 7, 10, 14.
Herbert, Sidney, ii. 298.
Hewson, William, i. 84, 126, 138.
Hill, Gardiner, and Lunacy, ii. 220, 221.
HINTON, JAMES (1822-1875);
early history, ii. 278, 279;
studies at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, 280;
foreign voyages, 280;
residence in Jamaica, 280;
intercourse with Toynbee, 281;
early writings, 281;
aural practice, 282;
charm of conversation, 283;
later publications, 284;
death, 284.
Hinton, J. H., ii. 278.
Hippocrates, the British, i. 52-70.
Hobbes of Malmesbury, i. 47.
Hodgson, Joseph, ii. 261.
Holland, Lord and Lady, i. 294, ii. 65.
HOLLAND, Sir HENRY (1788-1873), ii. 15;
early life, 62;
at Glasgow University, 63;
draws up Report on Agriculture of Cheshire, 63;
at Edinburgh, 64;
in society, 64;
travels, 64, 65, 68, 69;
becomes medical attendant to Princess Caroline, 65;
success and moderation, 66;
his great energy, 67;
marriages, 67;
physician to Queen Victoria, 67, 68;
death, 68;
writings, 69;
Recollections of Past Life, 70.
Home, Sir Everard, i. 141, 143, 148, 152, 154, 158-161, 178, 290,
291.
Houstoun, R., ii. 109.
Humane Society, i. 147, 284.
Hume, David, i. 91, 102.
Hunterian Museums. See Museums.
Hunterian Oration, i. 309.
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