The Dawn of Modern Medicine An Account of the Revival of the Science and Art of Medicine Which Took Place in Western Europe During the Latter Half of the Eighteenth Century and the First Part of the Nineteenth

LOUIS-GUILLAUME LEMONNIER, member of the Academy of the Sciences and First Physician of the King (Louis XV. and also Louis XVI.), was born at Paris, June 27, 1717. His father an...

In the preface to his “_Bibliothèque de Thérapeutique_,” which was published first in 1828, A. L. J. Bayle says that the art of treating diseases has been greatly neglected, in...

In looking over the list of medical men who attained distinction during the first half of the eighteenth century, one can scarcely fail to note two important facts, viz., that t...

In the history of surgery in France there is a conspicuous absence of distinguished names from the list of men who succeeded Ambroise Paré, until we reach that of J. L. Petit, a...

GIORGIO BAGLIVI, the most distinguished Italian physician of the seventeenth century (1669–1707), was probably the first medical author in that country to lay stress upon the im...

SECOND GROUP: WILLIAM AND JOHN HUNTER AND SIR BENJAMIN BRODIE My information concerning the Hunter Brothers is based upon data which I found in Pettigrew’s “Medical Portrait Gal...

A short time before his death the Hollander, Gerhard van Swieten, who was one of the last physicians of European celebrity to give up the habit of conversing in Latin with his p...

The desire to start the science of medicine on a new course of growth seemed to develop at the same time in England that it did on the continent of Europe—that is, during the fi...

About the year 922 of the present era the Arabian physician Rhazes wrote and published (in MS.) the earliest known report of the malady now called Variola or Small-Pox. From thi...

THÉOPHILE BORDEU was born at Iseste, in the region of the Pyrenees, on February 22, 1722. He received his preparatory education at the College of the Jesuits, in Pau. Later, he...

GEORGE PROCHASKA, born at Lipsitz, Moravia, in 1749, was appointed Professor of Anatomy and Ophthalmology at the Prague Medical School in 1778. Eight years later he was transfer...

In modern times such special departments as those devoted to the care of the teeth, mouth and jaws, to the remedying of defective eyesight and other affections of the eyes, to t...

AIMÉ-NICOLAS DUFRICHE DESGENETTES was born at Alençon, France, in 1762. His early medical training was obtained at the University of Montpellier, and the degree of Doctor of Med...

_Prefatory Remarks._—As the present volume purports to deal with events that occurred chiefly during the eighteenth century, the reader may think it strange that I should introd...

Among the men who may properly be included in the present class of distinguished German physicians I have no hesitation in naming von Haller and Zimmermann, notwithstanding the...

After the death of Maria Theresa, in 1780, her son Joseph, who had previously been associated with his mother in the government of the empire, became the Emperor in the full sen...

During the latter part of the eighteenth century the chemists of England and France manifested a new and decidedly stronger interest in their branch of natural science; indeed,...

RENÉ THÉOPHILE HYACINTHE LAËNNEC (1781–1826) was born at Quimper in Brittany, France. I am not able to furnish any details concerning his early history. His subsequent career as...

The present chapter is intended to supply, in as condensed a form as possible, some of the facts relating to the growth of the Paris School of Medicine, and also information con...

Among the contemporaries of Sir Benjamin Brodie there were several London surgeons who, by reason of the important parts which they played in building up this branch of the scie...

FRANÇOIS JOSEPH VICTOR BROUSSAIS was born in 1772 at Saint-Malo, a seaport on the north coast of France, in the Department of Ille-et-Vilaine (formerly a part of Brittany). His...

John Cross, the author of an excellent memoir entitled “Sketches of the Medical Schools of Paris,” has written such a full and satisfactory account of _la Maternité_ and its adm...

In the early part of the eighteenth century municipal and private-house sanitation existed in comparatively few cities of Europe, and then only in the wealthier quarters. Such a...

Among those who read the present chapter there may be some who will express surprise at the gloomy character of the picture which I draw of the state of medical affairs in Germa...

JOHANN FRIEDRICH DIEFFENBACH, born in 1794 at Koenigsberg, an important city of Northern Prussia, received his early medical education in France; first under Boyer, Dupuytren, L...

Up to the year 1829 the disease now universally called “typhoid fever” was known by a great variety of names, all of them more or less objectionable and therefore not acceptable...

SECTION 565.—In somno anima vel omnino nihil cogitat, quod memoria retineatur, quodque notum fit, vel unice occupatur in speciebus, sensorio communi receptis, quarum vividae rep...

The intellectual activity of Germany was very low during the first half of the eighteenth century, and this statement applies with equal truth to all the departments of learning...

Portrait of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, the French Frontispiece chemist and biologist who contributed more than anyone else to our knowledge of the chemistry and physiology of ox...