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[INDEX.]

Abercrombie’s, Sir Ralph, Expedition, i. [182].
Aberdeen University, i. [100], ii. 246.
Abernethy, John (1764-1831), i. [146], [162], [168];
early years, [227];
apprenticeship, [227];
pupil of Pott and John Hunter, [228];
appointed assistant-surgeon to St. Bartholomew’s, [228];
his lectures, [229];
dramatic style, [230], [231];
his method, [232];
apt phrases, [233];
roughness and eccentricity, [233], [234];
impatience, [235];
gratitude of an Irishman, [235], [236];
anecdotes, [236], [237];
surgical and physiological essays, [237];
“read my book,” [238];
marriage, [239];
becomes full surgeon, [239];
failing health, [240];
resigns appointments, [240];
death, [241];
Abernethy and Brodie, [289];
and Lawrence, [303-305], [307].
Academy of Science, French, i. [283].
Acland, Sir H., on Brodie, i. [300-303];
on Stokes, ii. 189, 192.
Acupressure, ii. 102.
Addison Family, the, ii. 1, 2.
Addison, Thomas (1793-1860), education, ii. 2;
at Edinburgh, 2;
settles in London, 3;
dislike of specialism, 3;
appointments at Guy’s, 4, 5;
early works, 4;
writes on practice of medicine, &c., 5;
on disease of supra-renal capsules (Addison’s disease), 6, 7;
clinical teaching, 7;
his practicality, 8;
Dr. Wilks on, 8-10, 11;
bluntness and shyness, 10, 11;
Continental reputation, 11;
Dr. Lonsdale on, 12;
marriage, 12, 13;
death, 13;
Addison Ward, 13;
association with Dr. Bright, 17, 21.
Aikin, John, on Harvey, i. [47];
on Cullen, [95].
Akenside, Mark, i. [99].
Aldersgate School of Medicine, i. [279], ii. 241.
Aldus Manutius, i. [2], [3].
Alison, Dr. W. P., i. [105], ii. 180, 188.
Anæsthetics, ii. 95-100.
Anatomical Lectures, i. [18], [75-79], [84], [109], [121], [135], [138], [204], [205], [229], [246], [289], ii. 25, 26, 36, 37, 48, 49, 73, 226.
Anatomists, William Hunter on, i. [125].
Anatomy in London, i. [18];
in Edinburgh, [72], [73];
stealing corpses for, [77];
the resurrectionists, [208-211];
at Royal Academy, [247].
—— Comparative. See Comparative Anatomy.
Anderson, Dr. James, on Cullen, i. [96], [98].
Aneurism, i. [153], [214], ii. 44.
Antiseptic Surgery, ii. 46, 114, 141-147.
Arthur, Prince, i. [3].
Aubrey on Harvey, i. [35], [38], [48], [49].
Babington, Dr., on Brodie, i. [299].
Baillie, Dr. Matthew (1761-1823) on William Hunter, i. [124];
completes his uncle’s work, [128];
his uncle’s bequests to him, [130], [132];
at John Hunter’s death, [158];
and Marshall Hall, [267], [269];
his practicality, ii. 51;
education, 52;
assists William Hunter, 53;
writes on morbid anatomy, 53;
physician to St. George’s Hospital, 53;
physician to George III., 54;
manners and generosity, 54, 55;
death, 55;
bequest to College of Physicians, 55.
Balderson, Charles, i. [208], [211], [215].
Balfour, Sir A., i. [72].
Barber Surgeons, i. [18], [72].
Barclay, Dr. (anatomical lecturer), ii. 25, 35.
Bark, Peruvian, i. [59].
Barlow, Dr. H. C., ii. 120.
Barlow, Dr., on Dr. Bright, ii. 14.
Baron, Dr., Life of E. Jenner, i. [169], [200], [201].
Bayley, Miss, i. [186].
Bell, Benjamin, i. [109], [110].
Bell, George Joseph, i. [243], [259].
Bell (John Hunter’s artist), i. [145], [147], [148].
Bell, Lady; i. [249], [258], [261-263].
Bell, John (1763-1820), and Dr. Gregory, i. [103], [105], [110];
early years, [108];
attacks Monro and Benjamin Bell, [109], [110]:
excluded from Infirmary, [110];
success in practice, [111];
operative skill, [111];
works on anatomy and surgery, [112];
marriage, [113];
artistic tastes; [113];
illness and foreign travel, [113];
death, [114];
Observations on Italy, [114];
personal character, [117], [118];
and Charles Bell, [243], [244], ii. 48, 107.
Bell, Sir Charles (1774-1842), i. [108], [112], [113];
birth and education, [243];
medical study in Edinburgh, [244];
early works, [244];
goes to London, [245];
artistic anatomy, [245];
lectures and early struggles, [246];
anatomy of expression, [246];
his lively temperament, [247];
first idea of new anatomy of brain, [247];
disappointment of Academy professorship, [248]
visit to Haslar Hospital, [248];
marriage, [249];
partnership in Windmill Street School, [249];
elected surgeon to Middlesex Hospital, [250];
goes to Waterloo, [250];
pamphlet on Brain, [251];
crucial experiments on spinal cord, [252];
publishes his discoveries on the nervous system, [253];
elucidates obscure diseases, [254];
muscular sense, [254];
Bridgewater Treatise on the Hand, [255];
becomes professor at College of Surgeons, [256];
at London University, [257];
retires from latter, [257];
fly-fishing, [257];
his happy temperament, [258];
knighted, [259];
elected Professor at Edinburgh, [259];
coldness of fellow-professors, [260];
excitement at proposed changes, [260];
journey to London, [260], [261];
his last day, [261];
Edinburgh Review on, [262];
Jeffrey’s Epitaph on, [262].
Bell, William, i. [242].
Bennett, John Hughes (1812-1875);
early training, ii. 209;
studies at Edinburgh, 210;
studies in Paris and in Germany, 210;
treatise on cod-liver oil, 210;
lectures in Edinburgh, 211;
polyclinical course, 211, 212;
literary work, 212;
elected Professor, 212;
clinical teaching, 213;
and Leucocythæmia, 213;
views on pneumonia, 214;
principal works, 214, 215;
character, 215, 216;
illness, operation, and death, 216.
Berkeley, Admiral, and vaccination, i. [192].
Bishops’ licenses to practise medicine, i. [10].
Blackhall, Dr., ii. 19.
Black, Joseph, i. [84], [90], [92], [96].
Blane, Sir Gilbert, i. [192].
Blicke, Sir C., i. [227].
Blizard, Sir W., i. [144], [228].
Booker, Rev. Dr., i. [185].
Botany at Edinburgh, i. [72].
Bowman, J. Eddowes, ii. 261.
Bowman, Sir W. (b. 1816);
early life, ii. 261;
studies medicine at Birmingham, 261;
at Dublin and King’s College, London, 261;
becomes demonstrator and curator, 262;
Continental studies, 262;
physiological papers, 262;
scientific writing, 263;
appointed to Ophthalmic Hospital, 263;
eye practice, 264;
professorship of physiology, 264;
baronetcy, 265;
St. John’s House, 265;
assist Miss Nightingale’s work, 265;
supports physiological experiments, 265;
lofty view of surgery, 266.
Boyle, Robert, i. [54].
Bridgewater Treatises, i. [255].
Bright, Richard (1789-1858), ii. 5;
birth, 14;
studies at Edinburgh and Guy’s, 15;
journey through Iceland, 15;
enters at Cambridge, 16;
travels on Continent, 16, 17;
at Waterloo, 16;
appointments at Fever Hospital and at Guy’s, 17;
Dr. Wilks on, 18;
writes on kidney diseases, 18-20;
on pneumonia, 20;
on cerebral and spinal diseases, 21;
practice, and death, 21;
character, 22, 23;
and Holland, 63, 64.
Bristol Medical School, ii. 127.
British Association, ii. 183.
British Medical Association, i. [281], ii. 162, 177.
British Medical Journal, ii. 154, 248, 265.
Brodie, Alexander, i. [286].
Brodie, Peter, i. [288].
Brodie, Rev. Mr., i. [287].
Brodie, Sir Benjamin (1783-1862);
ancestry, i. [286];
birth, [287];
early years and education, [288];
an ensign at fourteen, [288];
medical study in London, [288], [290];
non-medical friends, [289];
the Academical Society, [289];
becomes demonstrator at Windmill Street, [290];
appointed Assistant-Surgeon to St. George’s, [290];
lectures on Surgery, [291];
physiological studies, [291], [292];
marriage, [292];
work on Diseases of Joints, [292];
professional success, [294];
professorship at College of Surgeons, [294];
subcutaneous surgery, [294];
court appointments, and baronetcy, [295];
opposition to impostors, [296];
his numerous presidencies, [297];
autobiography, [297];
operations on his eyes, [298];
death, [298];
character of, [298-303];
character of Lawrence, [308].
Brougham, Lord, i. [246], ii. 34, 43.
Brown, Baker, ii. 110, 111.
Brown, Dr. John (Horæ Subsecivæ), on Sydenham, i. [59].
Brown, Dr. John (founder of Brownian System), i. [98].
Brown Square School, ii. 36, 37.
Buckland, F., and John Hunter’s remains, i. [163].
Budd, George, ii. 125.
Budd, Samuel, ii. 125.
Budd, William (1811-1880);
early life, ii. 125;
medical studies, 125;
investigates typhoid fever at North Tawton, 125-126;
germ theory, 126-128;
removes to Clifton, 127;
opposition to his views, 128;
measures against cholera, 128, 129;
against rinderpest, 129;
his writings, 129;
incessant work, 130;
views on pulmonary consumption, 130;
death, 130;
Murchison and, 132.
Buller, Justice, and John Hunter, i. [151].
Burke, Edmund, i. [91].
Byng, Dr., and Caius, i. [20].
Cæsalpinus, i. [29].
Caius College. See Gonville and Caius, also Caius, John.
Caius, John (1510-1573), builds Linacre’s monument, i. [13];
birth, [13];
at Cambridge, [14];
elected fellow of Gonville Hall, [14];
studies at Padua, and travels in Italy, France, and Germany, [14];
practises medicine, [14];
appointed physician to Edward VI., [14];
writes on Sweating Sickness, [15];
denounces quacks, [16], [17];
elected President of College of Physicians, [17], [20];
introduces dissection, [18];
enlarges Gonville Hall and builds gates, [19];
obtains statutes for Gonville and Caius College, and becomes Master, [19];
charged with atheism and Romanism, [20];
books and vestments burnt, [20];
writes on British Dogs, [21];
account of Bloodhound, [21], [22];
writes Method of Healing, [22];
death and burial, [23];
inscription on tomb, [23].
Calvin, i. [28].
Cambridge University, and Linacre, i. [3], [11];
and Caius, [14], [19], [20], [23];
and Sydenham, [60];
and Chambers, ii. 59;
and Watson, 149.
Canadian Indians and Jenner, i. [194].
Carlisle, Sir Anthony, i. [146], [155], [248], ii. 32.
Caroline, Princess (wife of George IV.), ii. 65.
Carro, Dr. De, i. [182].
Carter, Elizabeth, ii. 267.
Carter, R. Brudenell (b. 1828);
education, 268;
early works, 268;
Crimean service, 268;
country practice, 269;
connection with journalism, 269;
ophthalmic specialism, 269;
Treatise on Eye Diseases, 270;
later writings, 270, 271.
Celsus, i. [14].
Chambers, William Frederic (1786-1855);
education, ii. 59;
physician to St. George’s Hospital, 59;
physician to William IV., 60;
death, 60;
character and habits, 61.
Chandler, Mr., on Astley Cooper, i. [218].
Charles I., i. [35-39].
Charlesworth and Lunacy, ii. 220.
Cheselden, i. [76], [77], [120], [134].
Cholera, ii. 128.
Christison, Sir R. (1797-1882), ii. 42;
education at Edinburgh, 286;
studies in London and Paris, 286;
appointed Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh, 286;
his success in lecturing, 287;
success as scientific witness, 287;
dangerous experiments, 288;
work on poisons, 288;
appointed Professor of Materia Medica, 289;
influence in Edinburgh University, 289;
honours, 290;
death, 290;
personal characteristics, 290.
Circulation of the blood, i. [27-36].
Civiale’s operation, ii. 196.
Clarke, Dr., and J. Hunter, i. [150].
Clark, Sir James, ii. 181.
Clay, Dr. C., ii. 109, 110.
Clay, John, ii. 112.
Cleopatra’s Needle, ii. 247.
Clerke, Dr., i. [89].
Clift, W., i. [157], [160], [168], [220].
Cline, Henry, i. [144], [146], [180], [203], [204], [206], [212], [226].
Clinical lectures, i. [92], [93], [103], [250], ii. 38, 172, 206, 213.
—— medicine, ii. 162.
Cobbold, T. Spencer (b. 1828);
early life, ii. 255;
studies at Edinburgh, 255;
geological studies, 255, 256;
appointments in London, 256;
dissections at Zoological Gardens, 256;
practice as a specialist, 257;
connection with Veterinary College, 257;
lectures on parasites, 258, 259.
Cod-liver oil, ii. 186, 187, 210, 211.
Colet, i. [3].
Collyer, Robert, and anæsthetics, ii. 96, 97.
Columbus, Realdus, i. [14], [29].
Combe, William, i. [130], [131].
Comparative anatomy, i. [80].
Conolly, John (1794-1867), ii. 160, 217;
early life, 221;
enters militia, 221;
studies at Edinburgh, 222;
practises at Chichester, 222;
at Stratford, 222;
appointed Professor at London University, 222;
settles at Warwick, 222;
studies insanity, 222, 223;
work on Indications of Insanity, 223;
appointed to Hanwell, 225;
abolishes mechanical restraint, 226;
clinical lectures, 227;
interest in patients, 228;
retirement from Hanwell, 228;
at Earlswood Asylum, 229, 230;
private practice, 230;
writings and lectures, 231;
writes on Hamlet, 231;
death, 231.
Conservative surgery, ii. 47, 71-81.
Consumption Hospital, ii. 185.
Contemporary Review, ii. 197, 198.
Cooper, Bransby, i. [209], [221], [222].
Cooper family, the, i. [202].
Cooper, Sir Astley (1768-1841), i. [113], [146], [152];
early life, [202];
escapades, [203];
pupilage with Cline, [203];
studies at Edinburgh, [204];
becomes lecturer, [204];
visit to Paris, [204];
his style of lecturing, [205];
a severe accident, [206];
his personal influence, [206];
appearance and habits, [207];
sympathy with mental suffering, [207];
his servant Charles, [208];
Cooper and the resurrectionists, [208];
their extortions, [209];
his determination to have specimens, [210];
dissection of dogs, [211];
of an elephant, [211];
income, [211];
gives up politics on appointment to Guy’s surgeoncy, [212];
operates on tympanic membrane, [212];
membership of societies, [213];
his store of information, [214];
operations for aneurism, [214];
work on Hernia, [214];
life in New Broad Street, [215];
in the hospital and lecture-room, [216];
his overpowering influence, [217];
graceful operations, [218];
peremptory orders, [218];
a big fee, [219];
his limited pharmacopœia, [219];
lectures at College of Surgeons, [220];
ties the aorta, [220];
operates on George IV., [221];
Sir Astley as an examiner, [221];
foundation of Guy’s separate medical school, [222];
Presidency of the College of Surgeons, [222];
life in the country, [223];
horse-keeping, [223];
temporary retirement, [223];
later works, [224];
rapid movements, [224];
death, monument and portrait, [225];
estimate of Cooper, [225];
his own character of himself, [226];
and Abernethy, [235];
and Charles Bell, [248];
and Brodie, [295], [296].
Cooper, William, i. [203], [212].
Cornelio Vitelli, i. [2].
Corrigan, Sir Dominic (1802-1880);
education and medical studies, ii. 155;
papers on heart diseases, 156, 157;
Corrigan’s pulse, 156, 157;
appointments, 158;
becomes M.P. for Dublin, 159;
death, 159.
Coulton, ii. 97.
Cowley on Harvey, i. [39].
Coxe, Dr. Thomas, i. [53].
Cremation, ii. 116, 117, 194, 198, 199.
Cromwell, i. [73].
Cruickshank, i. [127], [130], [149].
Cullen, William (1710-1790);
birth, i. [87];
education at Glasgow, [87];
apprenticeship, [88];
goes to West Indies as ship’s surgeon, [88];
assists in a London shop, [88];
begins practice, [88];
receives a legacy, [88];
further studies at Edinburgh, [88];
friendship of Duke of Hamilton, [89];
influences William Hunter, [89];
marriage, [89];
removal to Glasgow, [89];
founds medical school there, [90];
his lectures and discoveries, [90], [91];
becomes Professor of Medicine at Glasgow, [91];
friendship with Adam Smith and David Hume, [91];
appointed Professor of Chemistry at Edinburgh, [91];
his clinical lectures, [92];
his candour, [92], [93];
letter to his son, [94], [95];
appointed to Chair of Physic, [95];
his works, [96];
personal influence, [96], [97];
kindness to students, [97];
Cullen and John Brown, [98];
death, [98];
personal aspect and habits, [98];
agreement with Gregory, [100];
friendship with William Hunter, [91], [94], [120], [122].
Czermak, ii. 251.
Dancaster, William, i. [13].
Darwin, Charles, anticipation of, i. [172].
Davy, Sir Humphrey, i. [172], ii. 95, 96.
Dogs, Caius on, i. [21].
Donders, ii. 260.
Donellan, Captain, trial of, i. [150].
Douglas, Dr., i. [120], [121].
Down, Dr. Langdon, on Conolly, ii. 229.
Drummond, George, i. [78].
Dublin Medical School, ii. 105, 155, 189-191, 201-208.
Duncan, Dr., on Monro secundus , i. [85], [86].
Edinburgh University and Medical School, i. [71-118], [204], [213], [224], [259], [260]; ii. 2, 15, 25-28, 35-50, 56, 59, 63, 64, 73, 85-94, 99-103, 125, 130, 131, 138, 149, 155, 204, 210-216, 221, 222, 286, 289.
Edward VI., i. [14].
Elizabeth, Queen, i. [14], [18], [23].
Elliot, Robert, Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh, i. [75].
Ent, Sir G., i. [40], [41].
Erasmus, i. [3], [4], [5].
Esquirol and lunacy, ii. 220.
Expectant treatment, i. [59].
Fabricius, i. [26], [29].
Faraday, ii. 96, 181.
Ferguson, Sir William (1808-1877), and conservative surgery, ii. 71, 72;
early years, 72;
studies anatomy under Knox, 72, 73;
assists Knox, 73;
his Edinburgh appointments, 73;
removal to London, 74;
operative skill, 74, 75;
conservation of limbs, 75;
lithotomy, 76;
excision of joints, 76, 77;
hare-lip and cleft-palate, 77;
invents instruments, 78;
careful planning of operations, 78, 79;
“Practical Surgery,” 79;
social character and manners, 80-82;
appointments, 81;
President of College of Surgeons, 81;
death, 82.
Fever Hospital, London, ii. 118, 119, 124, 131, 132.
Fevers, Sydenham’s method of curing, i. [54];
treatment of, [64].
Fisher, Robert, i. [3].
Flogging of Soldiers, i. [281].
Flourens, i. [283].
Foot, Jesse, on John Hunter, i. [135].
Fortnightly Review, ii. 240, 253.
Fothergill’s, Dr., collection, i. [130].
Fox, Bishop of Winchester, i. [4], [11].
Framingham, William, i. [16].
French Academy of Sciences, i. [283].
Fuller, on Caius, i. [20].
Galen, i. [7], [8], [14].
Gardner, E., i. [173], [176], [178].
Garthshore, Dr., i. [139], [162].
Generation, Harvey on, i. [34], [39-43].
George III., i. [127], ii. 54, 57.
George IV., i. [221], [295], ii. 57.
Gerhard, Dr., of Philadelphia, ii. 120.
Germ Theory of Typhoid, ii. 126, 127.
Gesner and Caius, i. [21].
Gilbert, William (1540-1603), i. [23], [24];
physician to Queen Elizabeth, [23];
writes on the magnet, [24].
Glasgow University, i. [87], [89], [120], [122], [128].
Gonville and Caius College, i. [19], [26].
Gonville Hall, i. [14], [19].
Goodsir, John, ii. 47, 255.
Graves, R. J. (1795-1853), ii. 189;
studies at Dublin, London, and Edinburgh, 202;
travels on Continent, 202;
intercourse with Turner, 202;
decision when in danger, 203;
description of, by Stokes, 203;
appointments in Dublin, 204, 206;
introductory lecture, 204;
his clinical method, 205;
lectures on physiology, 206;
clinical lectures, 206;
Trousseau’s opinion, 206, 207;
views on fevers, 208;
on cholera, 208;
death, 209.
Gregory family, i. [87], [99-108].
Gregory, Henry, on Marshall Hall, i. [277].
Gregory, James, Dr. (1753-1821), on Monro secundus , i. [83];
early years, [102];
completes his father’s lectures, [102];
studies on the Continent, [102];
practice, [103];
Gregory’s “Conspectus,” [103];
succeeds to Cullen’s chair, [103];
controversies, [103-105];
Gregory and John Bell, [105], [110], [112];
as a teacher and lecturer, [106];
autocracy, [103-107];
philosophical writings, [107].
Gregory, John (1724-1773), i. [95];
early years, [99];
studies at Edinburgh, [99];
at Leyden, [99];
elected professor at Aberdeen, [100];
marriage, [100];
settles in London, [100];
recalled to Aberdeen, [100];
removes to Edinburgh, [100];
works, [101];
death, [102].
Gregory, William, i. [107].
Grocyn, i. [3], [7].
Gull, Sir W. W. (b. 1816);
studies at Guy’s Hospital, ii. 159;
appointments at Guy’s, 160;
writings, 161;
protest against specialism, 161;
address to British Medical Association, 162;
Harveian oration, 162, 163;
honours, 163, 164;
evidence on intemperance, 164;
view of vivisection, 165, 166.
Guy, William, ii. 302.
Guy, W. A. (b. 1810);
education, ii. 302;
studies at Guy’s, Cambridge, and on the Continent, 303;
appointed professor at King’s College, London, 303;
studies statistics, 303;
sanitary reforms, 303;
works, 303.
Guy’s Hospital, i. [202-222], [225], ii. 3-13, 15-21, 159-161, 282, 291.
Guy’s Hospital Reports, ii. 10, 18, 20, 21, 161, 294.
Halford, Sir Henry (1766-1844);
on Baillie, ii. 51;
education, 56;
physician to Middlesex Hospital, 56;
physician to George III., 57;
change of name, 57;
president of College of Physicians, 58;
writings, 58.
Hall, Marshall (1790-1857);
birth, i. [264];
education and apprenticeship, [265];
study at Edinburgh, [265];
lectures on diagnosis, [266];
Continental study, [267];
practice in Nottingham, [267];
work on Diagnosis, [267];
on Symptoms and History of Diseases, [268];
on Loss of Blood, [268];
antagonism to bleeding, [268];
removes to London, [269];
rapid success, [269];
research on circulation refused by Royal Society, [270];
other papers accepted, [270];
study of hybernation, [271];
accident to a manuscript, [271];
research on reflex actions, [272-276];
application to nervous diseases, [273], [274], [276], [277];
persistent attacks on, [274], [275];
second paper rejected by Royal Society, [274];
researches on galvanism and nervous tissues, [275];
replies to mis-statements, [275], [276];
new memoir on Nervous System, [276];
Ready Method in Asphyxia, [277];
his demeanour in practice, [278], [279];
lectures, [279];
at College of Physicians, [280];
British Medical Association, [281];
philanthropic schemes, [281];
visit to America, [282];
writes on Slavery, [282];
Continental tour, and reception in Paris, [283];
suggestions for restoring the apparently drowned, [284];
painful illness and death, [285].
Hall, Mrs. Marshall, i. [276].
Hall, Robert, father of Marshall, i. [264].
Hall, Samuel, brother of Marshall, i. [265].
Hamilton, Duke of, i. [87], [89], [90].
Harrison, Treasurer of Guy’s, i. [212], [222], ii. 3.
Harveian Oration, i. [25], [45], [86], ii. 162.
Harvey, William (1578-1657);
birth, i. [26];
at Cambridge and Padua, [26];
settles in London, [26];
physician to St. Bartholomew’s, [27];
Lumleian lecturer, [27];
expounds new views on heart and circulation, [27];
Treatise on Motion of Heart and Blood, [30-33];
Harvey called crack-brained, [35];
physician to James I. and Charles I., [35];
travels on the Continent, [36];
attendance on Charles I., [36], [37];
at Edgehill, [37], [38];
at Oxford, [38];
studies hatching of eggs, [38];
appointed Warden of Merton College, [38];
his museum destroyed, [39];
leaves Oxford, [39];
lives with his brothers, [40];
entrusts Treatise on Generation to Dr. Ent, [41];
its publication, [42];
Harvey’s lost medical works, [43];
benefactions to College of Physicians, 44-47;
declines Presidency, [45];
infirmity in old age, [46];
death and burial, [46];
will, [46], [47];
personal character, [47];
personal appearance, [47], [48];
lofty intellectual position, [49];
habits, [49], [50];
Latinity, [50];
memorials in College of Physicians, [50];
William Hunter on, [126];
records of, in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, ii. 169.
Harvey’s brothers, i. [26], [40], [46], [50].
Harwood, Dr., on William Hunter’s library, i. [129].
Hawkins, Cæsar, ii. 110.
Hazelwood School, ii. 261.
Healing, Caius’ Method of, i. [22].
Helmholtz, ii. 260.
Henry VII., i. [1], [2], [4].
Henry VIII., i. [4], [7], [10], [14].
Herbert, Sidney, ii. 298.
Hewson, William, i. [84], [126], [138].
Hill, Gardiner, and Lunacy, ii. 220, 221.
Hinton, James (1822-1875);
early history, ii. 278, 279;
studies at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, 280;
foreign voyages, 280;
residence in Jamaica, 280;
intercourse with Toynbee, 281;
early writings, 281;
aural practice, 282;
charm of conversation, 283;
later publications, 284;
death, 284.
Hinton, J. H., ii. 278.
Hippocrates, the British, i. [52-70].
Hobbes of Malmesbury, i. [47].
Hodgson, Joseph, ii. 261.
Holland, Lord and Lady, i. [294], ii. 65.
Holland, Sir Henry (1788-1873), ii. 15;
early life, 62;
at Glasgow University, 63;
draws up Report on Agriculture of Cheshire, 63;
at Edinburgh, 64;
in society, 64;
travels, 64, 65, 68, 69;
becomes medical attendant to Princess Caroline, 65;
success and moderation, 66;
his great energy, 67;
marriages, 67;
physician to Queen Victoria, 67, 68;
death, 68;
writings, 69;
Recollections of Past Life, 70.
Home, Sir Everard, i. [141], [143], [148], [152], [154], [158-161], [178], [290], [291].
Houstoun, R., ii. 109.
Humane Society, i. [147], [284].
Hume, David, i. [91], [102].
Hunterian Museums. See Museums.
Hunterian Oration, i. [309].
Hunter, John (1728-1793), i. [123], [124], [127], [131];
birth and early years, [133];
visit to Glasgow, [133];
goes to London and assists his brother, [134];
his hospital studies, [134];
short residence at Oxford, [135];
shares his brother’s lectures, [135];
his style of lecturing, [136];
early discoveries, [136];
dissection of animals, [137];
becomes staff-surgeon in army, and goes to Belleisle and Portugal, [137];
returns home and practises in Golden Square, [138];
want of tact, [138];
his brusqueness, [139];
builds a house at Earl’s Court, and keeps a private menagerie, [139];
his encounter with leopards, [139];
ruptures his tendo Achillis , and studies mode of cure, [140];
elected Fellow of Royal Society, and surgeon to St. George’s Hospital, [140];
takes a house in Jermyn Street, and receives Jenner as pupil, [141];
marries Miss Home, [141];
his dislike of fashionable parties, [141];
writes on the Teeth, and on digestion of stomach after death, [142];
his principal contributions to the Royal Society, [142], [143];
his indefatigable industry, [143];
punctuality and order, [144];
blunt hospitality, [144];
employs an artist named Bell, [144], [145];
lectures on surgery, [145];
after-dinner habits, [146], [147];
appointed surgeon to the King, [147];
Croonian lectures, [148];
suffers from angina pectoris, [148];
visit to Bath, [148];
emotion at his brother’s death, [149];
his eagerness for specimens, [150];
obtains skeleton of O’Brien, the Irish giant, [150];
evidence on murder of Sir T. Boughton, [150];
Justice Buller’s strictures, [151];
builds museum in Leicester Square, [151];
renewed illness, [152];
portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, [153];
ties femoral artery, [153];
experiments on deer’s antlers, [153];
appointed surgeon-general to the army, [154];
Copley medal awarded, [154];
Home assists him, [154];
Hunter writes treatise on Blood, Inflammation, &c., [155];
dispute with hospital governors and surgeons, [155-157];
aid to young students, [155];
discussion at board meeting, and sudden death, [157];
personal appearance, [158];
national vote for his museum, [158];
declined by Physicians, accepted by Surgeons, [158];
Home and Hunter’s papers, [159];
Home burns them, [160];
Hunter the Cerberus of the Royal Society, [161];
his generosity, [162];
his income, [162];
his sense of his own importance, [162];
religious views, [162];
removal of remains to Westminster Abbey, [163];
views on life, [163], [164];
Dr. Moxon on, [165];
Sir James Paget on, [166-168];
Abernethy on, [168];
Clift on, [168];
and Edward Jenner, [170], [171], [176];
and Cline, [203];
and Astley Cooper, [204], [205];
and Abernethy, [228], [241];
and Baillie, ii. 53;
and ovariotomy, 106.
Hunter, William (1718-1783), i. [84];
becomes Cullen’s pupil, [89];
subsequent friendship with Cullen, [91], [94], [120], [122];
studies at Edinburgh, [120];
goes to London, [120];
studies at St. George’s Hospital, [121];
lectures on anatomy, [121];
lack of means, [122];
enters on obstetric practice, [122];
visits home, [122];
Medical Commentaries and other writings, [123];
disputes as to originality, [123], [127];
is assisted by John Hunter, [124];
excellence as a teacher, [124];
on anatomical controversy, [125];
on Harvey, [126];
called in to the Queen, [126];
chosen professor to the Royal Academy, [127];
Hunter and the Royal Society, [127], [128];
Hunterian Museum (now at Glasgow), [128];
founds anatomical school in Great Windmill Street, [129];
cost and extent of his collection, [129], [130];
leaves it to Baillie, with reversion to Glasgow University, [130];
intends to retire, [130];
dies, [131];
portraits of Hunter, [131];
personal habits and manners, [132];
bequeaths estate to Baillie, [132];
and John Hunter, [134];
and Baillie, ii. 53;
and ovariotomy, 106.
Hypochondria, Description of, i. [65].
India and Jenner, i. [183], [197].
Infirmary at Edinburgh, i. [78], ii. 26-28, 36-39, 45, 49, 73.
Jackson, C., ii. 98.
James I., i. [24], [35].
Jefferson, President, i. [182].
Jeffrey, Francis, i. [257], [258], [262].
Jenner, Edward (1749-1823), i. [141], [148];
apprenticeship, [169];
inoculation for small-pox, [170];
becomes John Hunter’s pupil, [170];
their mutual influence, [171];
Jenner’s sympathetic qualities, [172];
suggestion about earthworms, [172];
his personal appearance, [173];
wit, poetry, and accomplishments, [174];
convivial societies, [174], [175];
studies cow-pox, [176-180];
publishes discovery of vaccination, [179];
refuses London practice, [180];
Jenner and Dr. Woodville, [181];
discovery made known on Continent, [181];
in United States, [182];
in the East, [183];
Jenner’s patriotic offer, [183];
publishes brief narrative, [184-186];
vaccination by non-professionals, [186];
vaccination attacked, [187];
gratuitous vaccination, [189];
public vaccine Board, [190];
a temple to Jenner, [191];
the Empress of Russia and Jenner, [191];
Parliamentary grant, [192];
Royal Jennerian Institution, [193];
Treasury delays, [193];
testimony of Canadian Indians, [194];
Napoleon and Jenner, [194];
National Vaccine Establishment, [195];
Jenner’s inward life, [196];
second Parliamentary grant, [196], [197];
gratitude of Europeans in India, [197];
bereavements, [197];
death from small-pox after vaccination, [198];
Jenner’s account, [198];
presentation to the Czar, [199];
death of Mrs. Jenner, [199];
death, [200];
Dr. Baron on, [200], [201].
Jennerian Society, Royal, i. [190], [193].
Jenner, Sir William (b. 1815);
studies and early successes, ii. 118;
papers on Typhoid and Typhus Fevers, 119, 123;
later appointments and writings, 124, 125;
on Parkes, 296, 301.
Jenner, Stephen, i. [169].
Kaye. See Caius.
Keate, i. [155].
Keith, T., ii. 102.
Key. See Caius.
King’s College, London, ii. 74, 76, 77, 147, 149, 150, 262-264, 304.
Knox, Robert, ii. 72, 73.
Laennec, ii. 5, 181.
Lancet, The, i. [267], [275], [293], [298], [307], [309], [310], ii. 97, 133, 134, 142, 214, 243, 244, 295.
Latimer, i. [7].
Lawrence, Sir William (1783-1867),
and Brodie, i. [289];
education, [303];
apprenticed
to Abernethy, [303];
appointments at St. Bartholomew’s, [304];
early works, [304];
professor at College of Surgeons, [305];
criticism of Abernethy, [305];
lectures on Man, and controversy thereon, [305-307];
Lawrence yields to the storm, [307];
establishes Aldersgate Medical School, [307];
ophthalmic works, [308];
relations with College of Surgeons, [308];
delivers Hunterian oration, [309];
character of, [310];
death, [311].
Lenten preacher at Rome, a, i. [115-117].
Lifeboat Institution, National, and Marshall Hall, i. [284].
Lilye, i. [12].
Linacre, Thomas (1460-1524), birth, i. [1];
descent, [2];
school-days, [2];
elected fellow of All Souls’, [2];
takes pupils, [2];
travels in Italy, [2];
graduates M.D. at Oxford, [3];
translates the “Sphere” of Proclus, [3];
teaches Erasmus Greek, [3];
becomes Prince Arthur’s tutor, [3];
appointed physician to Henry VIII, [4];
studies theology, [4];
gains preferments, [5];
advises Erasmus, [5];
lectures at Oxford, [6];
receives a flattering address, [6];
translates Aristotle and Galen, [7], [8];
writes on grammar and language, [8];
founds College of Physicians, [8-10];
benefactions to it, [10];
founds lectureships at Oxford and Cambridge, [10-12];
his practical skill, [12];
his personal character, [12];
death, [13];
buried in St. Paul’s, [13];
memorial erected by Caius, [13];
will, [13].
Lister, Joseph Jackson, F.R.S., ii. 135-137.
Lister, Sir Joseph (b. 1828), ii. 46, 47, 114;
studies, 137;
physiological researches, 137;
professorship at Glasgow, 138;
unhealthy wards, 138-140;
carbolic acid and germs, 141;
the antiseptic system, 141-147;
diminution of pyæmia, 143, 146;
experiment on a calf, 143, 144;
antiseptic gauze, 145;
carbolic spray, 146;
corrosive sublimate, 146;
distinctions conferred upon, 147.
Liston, Rev. Harry, ii. 24.
Liston, Robert (1794-1847), education and early years, ii. 24;
medical study in Edinburgh, 25;
in London, 25;
assists Barclay, 25;
lectures on anatomy and surgery, 26;
dissensions at the Royal Infirmary, 26-28;
removes to London, 28;
works on surgery, 28;
as an operator, 29, 30;
his great strength, 30, 31;
his decision, 31;
and the College of Surgeons, 32;
the Times on, 32, 33;
and Syme, 33, 34, 35-37, 39-41;
death, 34;
and Sir J. Simpson, 85;
and chloroform, 98.
Lizars, Alexander, ii. 49.
Lizars, John, ii. 39, 48-50, 74, 109.
Locke, John, i. [62], [63], [70].
Lombard, Dr. H. C., ii. 119.
London Hospital, ii. 250-252.
London University, i. [257], ii. 163, 176, 301.
Long, St. John, i. [296].
Lonsdale, Dr., on Dr. Addison, ii. 3, 12, 13.
Lorenzo de Medici, i. [2].
Louis, i. [283], ii. 120.
Lumleian lectures, i. [27], [35], [44].
Lunacy, ii. 217-235.
Lymphatics, i. [84].
Macilwain on Abernethy, i. [231-233].
M’Dowell, Ephraim, ii. 107-109.
M’Kendrick, Dr., on Hughes Bennett, ii. 215, 216.
Mackenzie, Morell (b. 1837), on specialism, ii. 240;
early life, 249, 250;
medical study, 250, 251;
Continental studies, 251;
acquaintance with Czermak, 251;
appointments at London Hospital, 251, 252;
work with laryngoscope, 251-254;
becomes a specialist in diseases of the throat, 252;
his various works, 253;
extension of specialism, 253, 254.
Mackenzie, Stephen, ii. 249, 250, 268.
Mackenzie’s Travels in Iceland, ii. 15, 64.
Malpighi, i. [30], note.
Malthus, i. [61].
Manchester, Bishop of, on cremation, ii. 117.
Manutius, Aldus, i. [2], [3].
Mapletoft, Dr. J., i. [52], [62].
Mary, Queen, i. [14].
Materialism, i. [306].
Maudsley, Henry (b. 1835);
studies in London, ii. 232;
appointed Professor at University College, 233;
writes on Theory of Vitality and on Physiology and Pathology of Mind, 233;
Gulstonian Lectures on Body and Mind, 234;
case of Victor Townley, 235;
on Responsibility in Mental Disease, 235;
on Pathology of Mind, 235;
on Body and Will, 237, 238.
Meckel, i. [83].
Medical and Chirurgical Society, Royal, i. [213], [268], [295], [297], [299], ii. 11, 123, 187.
Medical Association, British, i. [281], ii. 45, 81, 124, 290.
Medical Council, ii. 159, 164, 289.
Medical Lectures, i. [75], [90], [92], [95], [96], [97], [100], [103], [106], ii. 5, 17, 133, 150, 158, 160, 183, 189.
Medical Society, Royal, of Edinburgh, i. [213], [265], ii. 2, 88, 209, 222.
Medical Times, ii. 77, 293, 294, 297.
Medicine, British, Foundation of, i. [1-24].
Menagerie, Tower, i. [137], [211].
Merton College, Oxford, i. [38], [39].
Middlesex Hospital, i. [250], [259], ii. 56, 131, 149, 256.
Minto House Hospital, ii. 38, 39.
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.
Parkes, E. A. (1819-1875);
Harveian oration, i. [25];
early influences, ii. 296;
studies at University College, 296;
goes to Madras and Moulmein, 297;
practice in London, 297;
journalistic work, 297;
physician to University College Hospital, 297;
serves in Crimean war, 298;
appointed professor at Army Medical School, 298;
Manual of Practical Hygiene, 299;
Army Medical Reports, 300;
Sir W. Jenner on, 301;
death, 302.
Parry, Dr., and Jenner, i. [197].
Paterson, Dr., Life of Syme by, ii. 31.
Pathological Society, ii. 185.
Pathology, i. [145].
Pearson, Dr., and vaccination, i. [190], [191].
Pembroke, Earl of, i. [15].
Pennock, Dr., of Philadelphia, ii. 120.
Peruvian bark, i. [59].
Pettigrew, Dr., on Astley Cooper, i. [216-218];
on Abernethy, [230].
Petty, Lord H., and vaccination, i. [196].
Physical Society of Guy’s, i. [213], ii. 6.
Physicians (Edinburgh), College of, i. [72-73], [76], ii. 289.
Physicians (Irish), College of, ii. 158, 206.
Physicians (London), College of, foundation of, i. [1], [8];
letters patent, [9];
new statutes, [10];
Caius and, [15];
insignia of, [17];
dissection, [18];
Harvey Lumleian lecturer at, [27], [35];
declines presidency, [45];
Sydenham and, [61];
and John Hunter’s Museum, [158];
E. Jenner and, [195], [199];
Marshall Hall and, [280];
Bright and, ii. 21;
Baillie and, 53, 55;
Halford and, 56, 58;
W. Jenner and, 124;
Murchison and, 133;
Watson and, 151;
Williams and, 184, 187;
Maudsley and, 234, 238;
Parkes and, 298;
Guy and, 303.
Pinel, ii. 218, 219.
Piozzi, Mrs., on Henry Holland, ii. 64.
Pitcairne, i. [73].
Pitt, William, i. [158].
Plempius of Louvain, i. [44].
Poisons, ii. 4.
Politian, i. [2].
Pott, Percival, i. [134], [228].
Prayer for the sick, ii. 197.
Prestonpans, i. [81].
Priestley, Dr., ii. 95.
Quacks, i. [16], [17], [58].
Quain, Jones, ii. 241, 242.
Queen’s University, Ireland, ii. 158.
Reflex action, i. [272-277].
Reid, John, ii. 85.
Reid, Thomas, i. [99], [107].
Resurrectionists, i. [208-211].
Reynolds, Dr. Russell, i. [276], [295].
Reynolds’, Sir Joshua, portrait of William Hunter, i. [131];
of John Hunter, [153], [163].
Richardson, John, i. [257].
Rinderpest, ii. 129.
Riolan, John, the younger, i. [33], [36], note.
Roots, Dr. W., and Astley Cooper, 206.
Royal Institution, ii. 66, 172.
Royal Society and William Hunter, i. [127];
and John Hunter, [140], [142], [143], [147], [148], [149], [154];
and Astley Cooper, [212], [213];
and Charles Bell, [253];
and Marshall Hall, [270], [272], [274], [275];
and Brodie, [291], [292], [297], [300];
and Lister, ii. 138, 147;
and Wilson, 244;
and Bowman, 262;
and Toynbee, 273, 275;
and Parkes, 301.
Russia, Emperor of, i. [195], [199].
—— Empress of, i. [191].
Salm, Count de, and vaccination, i. [191].
Sandford, Bishop, i. [114].
Sandys, Bishop, i. [20].
Scott, Sir Walter, ii. 150.
Selling, William, fellow of All Souls’, i. [2].
Servetus, i. [27], [28].
Shagglyng Lecture, i. [6].
Sharpe, Samuel, i. [121].
Shaw, Alexander, i. [249], [257], [258].
Shaw, John, i. [249], [250], [256].
Shelburne, Lord, i. [128].
Short, Dr. T., i. [68].
Sibbald, Sir R., i. [72], [73], [75].
Siddons, Mrs., i. [85].
Simmons, Dr. Foart, on William Hunter, i. [132].
Simon, John (b. 1816);
student at King’s College, 304;
appointed lecturer at St. Thomas’s Hospital, 304;
medical officer to City of London, 304;
to Board of Health and Privy Council, 304;
Reports to Privy Council, 305;
honours, 306.
Simpson, Alexander, ii. 84, 86, 89, 104.
Simpson, Sir James Y. (1811-1870);
birth and early years, ii. 83, 84;
student life in Edinburgh, 85;
his father’s death, 86;
disappointed of a parish surgeoncy, 86;
becomes assistant to Professor Thomson, 87;
his first original paper, 88;
description of, when presiding over Medical Society, 88, 89;
visits London and the Continent, 89;
his habits of plain speech, 90;
candidature for professorship of midwifery, 90, 91;
his success, 91, 92;
antiquarian paper on Leprosy, 92;
success in practice, 92, 93;
complaints of neglect, 93;
controversies, 94;
experiments with sulphuric ether, 98;
introduces chloroform, 99;
description of Simpson’s parties, 101;
introduces acupressure, 102;
attacks hospital system, 102;
honours, 103;
bereavements, 103;
death, 104.
Slavery, Marshall Hall on, i. [282].
Smith, Adam, i. [91].
Smith, Henry, and Marshall Hall, i. [271].
Smith, Henry, and Sir W. Fergusson, ii. 79, 80, 82.
Smith, Sydney, and Holland, ii. 67, 68.
Specialism, ii. 161, 239, 240.
Squirrel, Dr., and vaccination, i. [188].
St. Andrews University, i. [175].
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, i. [27], [36], [134], [304], [307], ii. 149, 167-169, 176, 286.
St. George’s Hospital, i. [134], [140], [154-158], [290], [291], ii. 25, 53, 59, 269, 273.
St. Mary’s Hospital, ii. 131, 257, 275.
St. Thomas’s Hospital, i. [204], [205], [211], [212], [216], [218], [219], [221], [222], [279], ii. 105, 133, 291, 304.
Stethoscope, the, ii. 5, 60.
Stewart, Dr. A. P., ii. 120.
Stewart, Dugald, i. [63], [95].
Stokes, William (1804-1878);
studies in Glasgow and Edinburgh, ii. 188;
writes on the stethoscope, 188;
early success, 189;
work on Diseases of the Chest, 189;
appointed Professor in Dublin University, 189;
work on Diseases of the Heart, 190;
lectures on fever, 191;
on student’s culture, 191;
on prevention of disease, 192;
character by Sir H. Acland, 192;
early rising and geniality, 193;
death, 193;
on Graves, 203, 205.
Struthers, Professor, on Monro primus , i. [81];
on Monro secundus , [83], [87];
on John Bell, [111].
Surgeons, College of, Edinburgh, i. [72], [75], [77], [208], ii. 44, 49, 73
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].
Thompson, Sir Henry (b. 1820);
studies in London and Paris, ii. 195;
twice wins Jacksonian prize, 195;
appointments at University College, 195, 196;
Clinical Lectures, 195;
Practical Lithotomy and Lithotrity, 195;
Civiale’s operation, 196;
attends King of the Belgians, 196;
controversy on Prayer for the Sick, 197;
on cremation, 198, 199;
on use of intoxicants, 200;
on Food and Feeding, 200;
artistic tastes, 200.
Thomson, Prof. A. T., ii. 296, 297.
Thomson, Prof. John, ii. 87, 90.
Thornhill, Sir James, i. [61].
Times, The, on Liston, ii. 32, 33.
Todd, R. B., ii. 262-264.
Tonstal, i. [11].
Tower Menagerie and John Hunter, i. [137];
and Astley Cooper, [211].
Toynbee, Joseph (1815-1866);
education, 273;
medical study, 273;
researches on the eye, 273;
aural practice, 274;
Asylum for Deaf and Dumb, 274;
researches and dissections, 275;
appointment to St. Mary’s Hospital, 275;
ventilation hobby, 275, 276;
Hints on Local Museums, 276;
artificial tympanic membrane, 276;
melancholy death, 277;
intercourse with Hinton, 281.
Travers, Mr., on Astley Cooper, 207.
Treatment, expectant, i. [59].
Trousseau, ii. 6, 11;
on Graves, 206, 207.
Tuke family and lunacy, ii. 219, 220, 231.
Turner, J. M. W., ii. 202.
Typhoid and Typhus Fevers, ii. 119-133.
University College, London, i. [257], ii. 28, 41-43, 118, 124, 137, 149, 183, 195, 196, 222, 232, 233, 273, 296-298.
Vaccination, i. [178-200].
Vaccine Institution, National, i. [193], [195].
Vaughan family, the, ii. 55, 56.
Vaughan, Henry. See Halford, Sir Henry.
Vesalius, i. [14].
Victoria, Queen, i. [311], ii. 57, 60, 67, 68, 81, 124, 151, 158, 164, 176, 188, 196.
Vitelli, Cornelio, i. [2].
Vivisection, i. [252], [271-275], [292], ii. 143, 165, 265.
Wakley, Thomas, ii. 243, 245.
Walker, Dr., and vaccination, i. [193].
Wallis, John, ii. 267.
Warren, Dr. J. C., and anæsthetics, ii. 98.
Waterhouse, Prof., i. [182].
Waterloo, Charles Bell at, i. [250].
Watson, Sir Thomas (1792-1882), ii. 128;
education, 148;
elected fellow of St. John’s, Cambridge, 149;
medical studies in Edinburgh and London, 149;
becomes proctor at Cambridge, 149;
removes to London, 149;
appointments, 149, 150;
and Sir Walter Scott, 150;
lectures published, 150;
honours, 151;
Introductory Lecture, 151-153;
Dr. West on, 153;
British Medical Journal on, 154;
death, 155.
Webb Street School of Medicine, i. [279].
Wells, Horace, ii. 97.
West, Dr. C., on Sir T. Watson, ii. 153.
Westfaling, Thomas, i. [179].
Wells, Sir T. Spencer (b. 1818),
on Sir W. Fergusson, ii. 72;
student life in Leeds, Dublin, and London, 105;
joins Samaritan Hospital, 106;
experience in Crimean war, 110;
early experiences in ovariotomy, 111, 112;
stringent precautions, 113;
great successes, 113, 114;
adopts antiseptic system, 114;
on surgery as salvaging, 115;
municipal and state questions, 116;
on cremation, 117.
Whytt, Andrew, i. [95], [100], [273].
Wilkes, John, i. [100].
Wilks, Dr., on Dr. Addison, ii. 8-11;
on Dr. Bright, 18.
William IV., i. [224], [259], [295], ii. 57, 60.
Williams, Charles J. B. (b. about 1800);
early education, ii. 178;
scientific experiments, 179;
studies at Edinburgh, 179;
chemical researches, 180;
studies in London and Paris, 180;
work on Stethoscope, 181;
settles in London, 181;
early writings, 182;
sounds of heart, 182;
Lectures at Kinnerton Street, 183;
reports to British Association, 183;
becomes Professor at University College, 183;
Gulstonian lectures, 184;
physician to Hospital for Consumption, 185;
Principles of Medicine, 185;
first president of Pathological Society, 185;
work on Cod-Liver Oil, 186, 187;
presidency of New Sydenham Society, and of Medical and Chirurgical
Society, 187;
studies in retirement, 188.
Wilson, Erasmus (1809-1884);
early life, ii. 240, 241;
studies under Abernethy, and in Paris, 241;
pupil of Langstaff, 241;
joins Aldersgate School of Medicine, 241;
assists Quain at University College, 242;
establishes Sydenham College, 242;
writes the Dissector’s Manual and Anatomist’s Vade Mecum, 242;
acquaintance with Thomas Wakley, and appointment on The Lancet, 243;
becomes a specialist in skin diseases, 243;
portraits of diseases of skin, 244;
Continental studies, 244;
character in practice, 244, 245;
the case of flogging at Hounslow, 245;
various works, 246;
founds professorship of dermatology, 246;
and of pathology, 246;
becomes President of College of Surgeons, 247;
pays for bringing Cleopatra’s Needle to London, 247;
his great munificence, 248;
bequest to College of Surgeons, 249;
death, 249.
Wilson, i. [249], [256], [290], [291].
Windmill Street School, i. [129], [140], [156], [249], [256], [290], [291], ii. 59.
Wolsey, Cardinal, i. [4], [8].
Wood, Alexander, i. [108].
Woodville, Dr., and vaccination, i. [181], [187].
Yelloly, Dr., on Astley Cooper, i. [214].
York, Duke of, and Abernethy, i. [234].
Zoological Society, i. [274].

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