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
MONRO, ALEXANDER (_primus_) (1697-1767);
birth, i. 75;
education, 75, 76;
appointed Professor of Anatomy, 76;
first lecture, 76;
large classes, 77;
difficulty of obtaining subjects, 77;
building of the infirmary, 78;
clinical lectures, 79;
post mortem examinations, 79;
“Osteology,” 79;
other works, 79;
Comparative Anatomy, 80;
private life, 80;
dresses wounds after Prestonpans, 81;
death, 81;
Professor Struthers on, 81.
MONRO, ALEXANDER (_secundus_) (1733-1817);
birth, i. 82;
lectures for his father, 82;
Continental travels, 82;
taught by Meckel, 83;
becomes professor, 83;
medical practice, 83;
discoveries on the lymphatic system, 84;
other works, 85;
fondness for the stage, 85;
and for horticulture, 85;
economy of time, 86;
favours vaccination, 86;
death, 87;
John Bell and, 108, 109.
MONRO, ALEXANDER (_tertius_), i. 86.
Monro, John, i. 75, 76.
Montagu, Lady Mary, i. 100.
Montanus, i. 14.
Monteith, Alex., i. 73, 74.
More, Hannah, ii. 178.
More, Sir T., i. 2, 3, 11.
Morris, Edward, i. 197.
Morton, W. T. G., ii. 98.
Moxon, Dr., on John Hunter, i. 165, 166.
Müller, Johannes, and Marshall Hall, i. 270.
MURCHISON, CHARLES (1830-1879), ii. 119;
medical studies, 130, 131;
work in Calcutta and Burmah, 131;
returns to London, 131;
appointments, 131;
work on Continued Fevers, 131-133;
other writings, 133;
his teaching powers, 133;
character, 134.
Museums, Hunterian, i. 128-130, 151, 158, 159, 163.
Napoleon I. and Jenner, i. 194.
National Vaccine Institution, i. 193, 195.
Nélaton, ii. 11.
Nightingale, Miss Florence, ii. 265.
O’Brien, skeleton of, i. 150.
Orfila, ii. 285, 286, 291.
Ottley, D., on John Hunter, i. 146.
Ovariotomy, ii. 106-114.
Oxford University, Linacre and, i. 2, 3, 6, 7, 11;
Harvey and, 38, 39;
Sydenham at, 52-54;
John Hunter at, 135;
and Jenner, 199;
and Baillie, ii. 52;
and Halford, 56.
Padua, Linacre at, i. 2;
Caius at, 14;
Harvey at, 26.
PAGET, Sir JAMES (b. 1814), i. 166-168, ii. 72, 114, 143;
early studies, 167;
report on results of use of microscope, 168;
address to students, 168, 169;
professorship at College of Surgeons, 169:
publication of lectures, 170;
conditions of healthy nutrition, 170, 171;
lecture on Study of Physiology, 172;
clinical lectures, 172;
attention to detail, 173;
serious illness, 173, 174;
on Theology and Science, 174;
on alcohol, 175;
appointments, 176;
on the College of Surgeons’ Museum, 176;
on exceptions to types, 177;
on Study of Science, 177.
Palmer, trial of, i. 284, ii. 287, 288, 294.
Palmerston, Lord, ii. 66.
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