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.

IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II.

LONDON: JOHN HOGG, PATERNOSTER ROW.

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CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

CHAP. PAGE

XI. ADDISON, BRIGHT, AND THE DISEASES WHICH BEAR THEIR NAMES 1

XII. LISTON, SYME, LIZARS, AND THE NEWER SURGERY 24

XIII. BAILLIE, HALFORD, CHAMBERS, AND HOLLAND, THE FASHIONABLE AND COURTLY PHYSICIANS 51

XIV. SIR WILLIAM FERGUSSON AND CONSERVATIVE SURGERY 71

XV. SIR JAMES SIMPSON AND ANÆSTHETICS 83

XVI. SIR SPENCER WELLS AND OVARIOTOMY 105

XVII. SIR WILLIAM JENNER, BUDD, MURCHISON, AND TYPHOID FEVER 118

XVIII. SIR JOSEPH LISTER AND ANTISEPTIC SURGERY 135

XIX. SIR THOMAS WATSON, SIR DOMINIC CORRIGAN, SIR WILLIAM GULL, AND CLINICAL MEDICINE 148

XX. SIR JAMES PAGET AND SURGICAL PATHOLOGY 167

XXI. WILLIAMS, STOKES, AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST 178

XXII. SIR HENRY THOMPSON AND CREMATION 194

XXIII. GRAVES, HUGHES BENNETT, AND CLINICAL TEACHING 201

XXIV. CONOLLY, MAUDSLEY, AND MENTAL DISEASES 217

XXV. EMINENT SPECIALISTS: SIR ERASMUS WILSON AND SKIN DISEASES; MORELL MACKENZIE AND THROAT DISEASES; COBBOLD AND INTERNAL PARASITES 239

XXVI. EMINENT SPECIALISTS—continued: SIR W. BOWMAN, BRUDENELL CARTER, AND EYE DISEASES; TOYNBEE, HINTON, AND EAR DISEASES 260

XXVII. SIR R. CHRISTISON, SWAINE TAYLOR, AND POISON DETECTION 285

XXVIII. PARKES, GUY, SIMON, AND PUBLIC HEALTH 295

INDEX 307

EMINENT DOCTORS.