London (Ancient and Modern) from the Sanitary and Medical Point of ViewPoore, George Vivian
History
London (Ancient and Modern) from the Sanitary and Medical Point of View
Poore, George Vivian
Medicine -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century; Sanitation -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
=Dr. Goulston= (F.R.C.P. 1611) founded by will the _Gulstonian
Lectures_, to be read “between Michaelmas and Easter by one of the four
youngest doctors of the College.” =Sir Theodore Mayerne= (F.R.C.P.
1616), was by birth a Swiss Protestant, and after serving as physician
to Henry IV. of France, settled in London, where he became physician
to James I. and his Queen, and subsequently to Charles I. He was the
fashionable physician of his day, and was one of the first to use
chemical medicines, which was looked upon as heretical by the strict
Galenists, who used only “simples,” drawn from organic nature. He
introduced calomel and blackwash, wrote the dedication to the first
edition of the Pharmacopœia Londinensis (1618), accumulated great
wealth, and died at Chelsea in 1655.
=Sir Charles Scarborough= succeeded Harvey as Lumleian lecturer, and
was lecturer on anatomy to the Barber-Surgeons. He was physician to
Charles II., James II., and William III., and was a great mathematician.
=Baldwin Hamey=, jun. (F.R.C.P. 1634), a devoted Royalist and
Churchman, enjoyed a lucrative practice among amorous Parliamentary
Puritans. He presented the lease of the College in Amen Corner to his
colleagues (1651), contributed largely to its rebuilding after the
fire, and left it a considerable landed estate near Ongar, in Essex.
=Francis Glisson= (F.R.C.P. 1635), Regius Professor of Physic at
Cambridge, was president of the College in 1667-8-9. He wrote a
treatise on Rickets, was a serious anatomist, wrote a treatise on the
Anatomy of the Liver, and has given us “Glisson’s Capsule” as a record
of his industry and talent. He was one of the original members of the
Royal Society, and one of the few of the Fellows of the College who
stopped in London during the plague. He was a friend of Anthony Ashley,
Earl of Shaftesbury. We are indebted to Dr. Glisson for positive
additions to our knowledge of the human body, and he is to be regarded
as the third in order of time of the scientific Fellows.
=Thomas Wharton= (F.R.C.P. 1650), =Thomas Willis= (F.R.C.P. 1664), and
=Richard Lower= (F.R.C.P. 1675) were three earnest and distinguished
anatomists, who added new facts to medicine, and whose names are still
enshrined in our anatomical nomenclature.
THE PLAGUE.
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