Eminent doctors: their lives and their work /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas), 1850-1891
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : J. Hogg, [1885]
Edition:	Second edition.
Subjects:	Physicians > Great Britain. Medicine > Great Britain > History. Medicine. Physicians. Great Britain. History.

Table of Contents:

v. 1 Linacre, Caius & the foundation of British medicine; William Harvey & the circulation of the blood; Thomas Sydenham, the British Hippocrates; The Monros, Cullen, the Gregorys, John Bell & the foundation of the Edinburgh school of medicine; William & John Hunter & the applications of anotomy & physiology to surgery; Edward Jenner & vaccination; Sir Astley Cooper & Abernethy; the knife vs. regimen; Sir Charles Bell & the functions of the nervous system; Marshall Hall & the discovery of reflex action; Sir Benjamin Brodie & Sir William Lawrence, two great surgeons.