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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.