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

Operative dexterity, as was natural, arrived more quickly at perfection than did medical treatment. In fact, no one will pretend that medicine has yet travelled far, in comparis...

Among operating surgeons few names take higher rank than those of Liston and Syme, at one time close associates in private medical teaching at Edinburgh, at a later period jealo...

One cannot more strikingly emphasise the change which has taken place during the present century in the views and practice of medical men than by quoting from Sir Henry Halford’...

The association of the word “conservative” with operative surgery, so strongly identified in the popular mind with the removal of portions of the body, needs some explanation to...

Future ages will perceive in the history of medicine and surgery in the nineteenth century no more remarkable event than the discovery and the introduction of means for relievin...

Thomas Spencer Wells, whose career in the revival of the operation of ovariotomy has attracted very widespread attention and interest, was born in 1818, being the eldest son of...

In no department of medical knowledge has recent progress been more marked than in the discrimination and the tracing of the natural history of the diseases known as zymotic: an...

Again and again in these pages the hereditary succession of scientific powers has been illustrated. Not the least eminent example is to be found in the case of Sir Joseph Lister...

The Nestor of the medical profession, Sir Thomas Watson, died in 1882, at the great age of ninety, universally beloved and honoured. Yet he had written but one extended work, th...

The foremost surgical philosopher and orator of his day, Sir JAMES PAGET was called to occupy the presidential chair of the International Medical Congress which met in London in...

Although this country has not enjoyed the distinction of introducing that invaluable instrument, the stethoscope, to medical science, great interest naturally attaches to those...

The mode of disposing of the remains of the dead is naturally one upon which doctors may be expected to have a good deal to say. As guardians of the health of the living, the da...

The subjects of this chapter, both men of great influence, left a decisive mark on the systems of clinical teaching in their respective schools of medicine, besides rendering gr...

The modern realisation of the association of mental with physical health, the annexation to the sphere of biology of the phenomena of mind, and the concurrent comprehension of t...

Specialisation is decreed by the will of the public as much as by that of the practitioner. This is true of many professions besides those of medicine. Although the general disc...

The eye, the organ of light, was, till recent times, practically a dark chamber. Only its grosser movements and the effects of its lenses upon the rays of light were understood....

Although the detection of crimes of poisoning is but one of the departments of service which the medical profession is able to render to the law, yet it is one which has very la...

“Prevention is better than cure” is the homely proverb which marks out a large proportion of the work of sanitary science. The prevention of disease and of its spread, and the p...

Chaps. 2 to 9. Courses of Reading in English Poetry, History, Biography, Fiction, Travel and Discovery, Theology, Philosophy and Metaphysics, Miscellaneous Science and Scientifi...

“We like the thorough way in which Mr. Adams deals with ‘Self-Culture: Moral, Mental, and Physical.’ His chapter on the courtesies of home life, and the true relation between pa...