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
=Eminent Doctors: Their Lives and= Their Work. By G. T. BETTANY,
M.A. (Camb.), B.Sc. (Lond.), F.L.S., Author of “First Lessons in
Practical Botany,” “Elementary Physiology,” etc., and Lecturer on
Botany in Guy’s Hospital Medical School.
“There is to me an inexpressible charm in the lives of the good,
brave, learned men whose only objects have been, and are, to
alleviate pain and to save life.”—G. A. SALA.
CHAP.
1. LINACRE, CAIUS, and the Foundation of British Medicine.
2. WILLIAM HARVEY and the Circulation of the Blood.
3. THOMAS SYDENHAM, the British Hippocrates.
4. The MONROS, CULLEN, The GREGORYS, JOHN BELL, and
the Foundation of the Edinburgh School.
5. The HUNTERS and the Applications of Anatomy and Physiology to
Surgery.
6. EDWARD JENNER and Vaccination.
7. SIR ASTLEY COOPER and ABERNETHY: the Knife _versus_ Regimen.
8. SIR CHARLES BELL and the Functions of the Nervous System.
9. MARSHALL HALL and Reflex Action.
10. SIR B. BRODIE and SIR WM. LAWRENCE: two Great Practical Surgeons.
11. ADDISON and BRIGHT, and the Diseases which bear their Names.
12. LISTON, SYME, LIZARS, and the Newer Surgery.
13. BAILLIE, HALFORD, CHAMBERS, and HOLLAND:
Fashionable and Courtly Physicians.
14. SIR WM. FERGUSSON and Conservative Surgery.
15. SIR JAMES SIMPSON and Anæsthetics.
16. SIR SPENCER WELLS and Ovariotomy.
17. SIR WILLIAM JENNER, BUDD, MURCHISON, and Typhoid Fever.
18. SIR JOSEPH LISTER and Antiseptic Surgery.
19. SIR F. WATSON, SIR DOMINIC CORRIGAN, SIR W. GULL,
and Clinical Medicine.
20. SIR JAMES PAGET and Surgical Pathology.
21. DR. WILLIAMS, STOKES, and Diseases of the Chest.
22. SIR HENRY THOMPSON and Cremation.
23. GRAVES, HUGHES BENNETT, and Clinical Teaching.
24. CONOLLY, MAUDSLEY, and Mental Diseases.
25. EMINENT SPECIALISTS: SIR ERASMUS WILSON and Skin Diseases;
MORELL MACKENZIE and Throat Diseases; COBBOLD
and Internal Parasites.
26. EMINENT SPECIALISTS, _continued_:—SIR WILLIAM
BOWMAN, BRUDENELL CARTER, and Eye Diseases;
TOYNBEE, HINTON, and Ear Diseases.
27. SIR R. CHRISTISON, DR. A. SWAYNE TAYLOR, and Poison Detection.
28. PARKES, ANSTIE, ED. SMITH, SIMON,
BUCHANAN, and Public Health.
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