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Eminent Doctors : Their Lives and Their Work / G. T. Bettany.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas), 1850-1891, author.
- Series:
- Historical figures (Nova Science Publishers)
- Historical Figures Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physicians--Great Britain.
- Physicians.
- Medicine--Great Britain--History.
- Medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (364 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2024]
- Summary:
- Eminent Doctors: Their Lives and Their Work contains biographical accounts of notable men of medicine whose contributions have made medicine and surgery what they are today.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1
- Linacre, Caius, and the Foundation of British Medicine
- Chapter 2
- William Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood
- Chapter 3
- Thomas Sydenham, the British Hippocrates
- Chapter 4
- The Monros, Cullen, the Gregorys, John Bell, and the Foundation of the Edinburgh School of Medicine
- Chapter 5
- William and John Hunter and the Applications of Anatomy and Physiology to Surgery
- Chapter 6
- Edward Jenner and Vaccination
- Chapter 7
- Sir Astley Cooper and Abernethy: The Knife versus Regimen
- Chapter 8
- Sir Charles Bell and the Functions of the Nervous System
- Chapter 9
- Marshall Hall, and the Discovery of Reflex Action
- Chapter 10
- Sir Benjamin Brodie and Sir William Lawrence, Two Great Practical Surgeons
- Chapter 11
- Addison, Bright, and the Diseases Which Bear Their Names
- Chapter 12
- Liston, Syme, Lizars, and the Newer Surgery
- Chapter 13
- Baillie, Halford, Chambers, and Holland, the Fashionable and Courtly Physicians
- Chapter 14
- Sir William Fergusson and Conservative Surgery
- Chapter 15
- Sir James Simpson and Anæsthetics
- Chapter 16
- Sir Spencer Wells and Ovariotomy
- Chapter 17
- Sir William Jenner, Budd, Murchison, and Typhoid Fever
- Chapter 18
- Sir Joseph Lister and Antiseptic Surgery
- Chapter 19
- Sir Thomas Watson, Sir Dominic Corrigan, Sir William Gull, and Clinical Medicine
- Chapter 20
- Sir James Paget and Surgical Pathology
- Chapter 21
- Williams, Stokes, and Diseases of the Chest
- Chapter 22
- Sir Henry Thompson and Cremation
- Chapter 23
- Graves, Hughes Bennett, and Clinical Teaching
- Chapter 24
- Conolly, Maudsley, and Mental Diseases
- Chapter 25
- Eminent Specialists. Sir Erasmus Wilson and Skin Diseases
- Morell Mackenzie and Throat Diseases
- Cobbold and Internal Parasites
- Chapter 26.
- Eminent Specialists - Continued. Sir W. Bowman, Brudenell Carter, and Eye Diseases
- Toynbee, Hinton, and Ear Diseases
- Chapter 27
- Sir R. Christison, Swaine Taylor, and Poison Detection
- Chapter 28
- Parkes, Guy, Simon, and Public Health
- Index
- Blank Page.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-911-3871-1
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