Eminent doctors: Their lives and their work; Vol. 2 of 2

EMINENT DOCTORS.
Ballantyne Press
BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. EDINBURGH AND LONDON
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.
IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II.
LONDON: JOHN HOGG, PATERNOSTER ROW.
CONTENTS OF VOL. II.
EMINENT DOCTORS.
Operative dexterity, as was natural, arrived more quickly at perfection than did medical treatment. In fact, no one will pretend that medicine has yet travelled far, in comparison with its future achievements, when physiology, pathology, and therapeutics shall have become more complete. Thomas Addison is a specimen of the physicians of genius who have adorned this century. He is known as the discoverer of a disease which bears his name; but his true fame rests upon his practical talent in diagnosing disease.