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
Surgeons, College of, London, i. 220, 221, 240, 250, 256, 294, 297,
304-311, ii. 32, 79, 81, 115, 167, 169, 176, 246, 249, 271,
305.
Surgical Lectures, i. 79, 109, 131, 138, 145, 154, 156, 205, 229,
246, 247, 291, ii. 25, 28, 36, 37, 48, 49, 79.
Sutherland, James, i. 72.
Sweating Sickness, i. 15.
Sydenham College, i. 279, ii. 242.
—— Society, New, ii. 187, 189.
SYDENHAM, THOMAS (1624-1689);
birth, i. 52;
at Oxford, 52;
led to choose medicine by Dr. Coxe, 53;
escapes when shot at in London, 53;
returns to Oxford, 54;
removes to London, 54;
publishes method of curing fevers, 54;
his principles, 55;
philosophic views, 56;
ideas of disease, 57;
views on nature’s order, 58;
on quacks and culpable secrecy, 58;
on Peruvian bark, 59;
Dr. J. Brown on the “Method,” 59, 60;
subsequent editions, 60;
becomes M.D., 61;
treatise on gout and dropsy, 61;
death, 61;
will, 61;
medicine learnt by practice, 62;
his opinion of Locke, 62;
experimental medicine, 63;
attention to wishes of patients, 64;
on hysteria and hypochondria, 65;
Sydenham’s character of himself, 66;
his humour, 66, 67;
kindheartedness, 67;
calumnies on, 68;
his Rational Theology, 69;
his religious feelings, 69, 70.
Sydenham, William, i. 52.
SYME, JAMES (1799-1870);
and Liston, ii. 25-27, 31, 33, 34;
education and early years, 35;
discovers waterproofing process, 35;
assists Liston, 36;
amputation at the hip-joint, 36;
studies in Germany, 36;
Brown Square Medical School, 36;
surgical lectures, 37;
starts Minto House Hospital, 38;
clinical lectures, 38;
Liston’s jealousy, 39;
gains professorship of surgery, 39;
reconciliation with Liston, 40;
Syme’s controversies, 40;
writings, 41, 44, 45;
brief removal to London, 41-43;
great operations, 44;
Principles of Surgery, 44;
address to British Medical Association, 45;
Battle of the Sites, 45;
private life, 46;
on antiseptic method, 46;
testimonial dinner, 47;
Professor Lister on, 48;
and Fergusson, 73, 75, 76.
TAYLOR, A. SWAINE (1806-1880);
education, ii. 291;
medical studies, 291;
studies chemistry and medical jurisprudence, 291;
appointed to lecture at Guy’s, 292;
papers and writings, 292, 293;
appearance as witness, 294;
the Palmer trial, 294;
death, 294.
Theology, Sydenham’s Rational, i. 69.
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