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
JENNER, Sir WILLIAM (_b._ 1815);
studies and early successes, ii. 118;
papers on Typhoid and Typhus Fevers, 119, 123;
later appointments and writings, 124, 125;
on Parkes, 296, 301.
Jenner, Stephen, i. 169.
Kaye. See Caius.
Keate, i. 155.
Keith, T., ii. 102.
Key. See Caius.
King’s College, London, ii. 74, 76, 77, 147, 149, 150, 262-264, 304.
Knox, Robert, ii. 72, 73.
Laennec, ii. 5, 181.
_Lancet, The_, i. 267, 275, 293, 298, 307, 309, 310, ii. 97, 133, 134,
142, 214, 243, 244, 295.
Latimer, i. 7.
LAWRENCE, Sir WILLIAM (1783-1867),
and Brodie, i. 289;
education, 303;
apprenticed
to Abernethy, 303;
appointments at St. Bartholomew’s, 304;
early works, 304;
professor at College of Surgeons, 305;
criticism of Abernethy, 305;
lectures on Man, and controversy thereon, 305-307;
Lawrence yields to the storm, 307;
establishes Aldersgate Medical School, 307;
ophthalmic works, 308;
relations with College of Surgeons, 308;
delivers Hunterian oration, 309;
character of, 310;
death, 311.
Lenten preacher at Rome, a, i. 115-117.
Lifeboat Institution, National, and Marshall Hall, i. 284.
Lilye, i. 12.
LINACRE, THOMAS (1460-1524), birth, i. 1;
descent, 2;
school-days, 2;
elected fellow of All Souls’, 2;
takes pupils, 2;
travels in Italy, 2;
graduates M.D. at Oxford, 3;
translates the “Sphere” of Proclus, 3;
teaches Erasmus Greek, 3;
becomes Prince Arthur’s tutor, 3;
appointed physician to Henry VIII, 4;
studies theology, 4;
gains preferments, 5;
advises Erasmus, 5;
lectures at Oxford, 6;
receives a flattering address, 6;
translates Aristotle and Galen, 7, 8;
writes on grammar and language, 8;
founds College of Physicians, 8-10;
benefactions to it, 10;
founds lectureships at Oxford and Cambridge, 10-12;
his practical skill, 12;
his personal character, 12;
death, 13;
buried in St. Paul’s, 13;
memorial erected by Caius, 13;
will, 13.
Lister, Joseph Jackson, F.R.S., ii. 135-137.
LISTER, Sir JOSEPH (_b_. 1828), ii. 46, 47, 114;
studies, 137;
physiological researches, 137;
professorship at Glasgow, 138;
unhealthy wards, 138-140;
carbolic acid and germs, 141;
the antiseptic system, 141-147;
diminution of pyæmia, 143, 146;
experiment on a calf, 143, 144;
antiseptic gauze, 145;
carbolic spray, 146;
corrosive sublimate, 146;
distinctions conferred upon, 147.
Liston, Rev. Harry, ii. 24.
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