Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter I. Linacre, Caius, and the Foundation of British Medicine
Chapter II. William Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood
Chapter III. Thomas Sydenham, the British Hippocrates
Chapter IV. The Monros, Cullen, the Gregory’s, John Bell, and the Foundation of the Edinburgh School of Medicine
Chapter V. William and John Hunter and the Applications of Anatomy and Physiology to Surgery
Chapter VI. Edward Jenner and Vaccination
Chapter VII. Sir Astley Cooper and Abernethy: The Knife versus Regimen
Chapter VIII. Sir Charles Bell and the Functions of the Nervous System
Chapter IX. Marshall Hall and the Discovery of Reflex Action
Chapter X. Sir Benjamin Brodie and Sir William Lawrence, Two Great Practical Surgeons
Chapter XI. Addison, Bright, and the Diseases Which Bear Their Names
Chapter XII. Liston, Syme, Lizars, and the Newer Surgery
Chapter XIII. Baillie, Halford, Chambers, and Holland, the Fashionable and Courtly Physicians
Chapter XIV. Sir William Fergusson and Conservative Surgery
Chapter XV. Sir James Simpson and Anæsthetics
Chapter XVI. Sir Spencer Wells and Ovariotomy
Chapter XVII. Sir William Jenner, Budd, Murchison, and Typhoid Fever
Chapter XVIII. Sir Joseph Lister and Antiseptic Surgery
Chapter XIX. Sir Thomas Watson, Sir Dominic Corrigan, Sir William Gull, and Clinical Medicine
Chapter XX. Sir James Paget and Surgical Pathology
Chapter XXI. Williams, Stokes, and Diseases of the Chest
Chapter XXII. Sir Henry Thompson and Cremation
Chapter XXIII. Graves, Hughes Bennett, and Clinical Teaching
Chapter XXIV. Conolly, Maudsley, and Mental Diseases
Chapter XXV. Eminent Specialists: Sir Erasmus Wilson and Skin Diseases; Morell Mackenzie and Throat Diseases; Cobbold and Internal Parasites
Chapter XXVI. Eminent Specialists—Continued: Sir W. Bowman, Brudenell Carter, and Eye Diseases; Toynbee, Hinton, and Ear Diseases
Chapter XXVII. Sir R. Christison, Swaine Taylor, and Poison Detection
Chapter XXVIII. Parkes, Guy, Simon, and Public Health
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