Eminent Doctors Their Lives And Their Work Volii

Author : G. T. Bettany
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484594820
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book Eminent Doctors, Vol. 2 of 2 written by G. T. Bettany and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Eminent Doctors, Vol. 2 of 2: Their Lives and Their Work Being slightly deaf in one ear, he was correspondingly acute with the other. This ear he used with surpass ing skill in auscultation of the heart and lungs. In the preface to an edition of Dr. Bright's Clinical Memoirs on Abdominal Tumours, published by the Sydenham Society in 1861, Dr. Barlow well remarks, There has been no English physician - perhaps it may be said none of any country - since the time of Harvey, who has effected, not only so great an advance in the knowledge of particular diseases, but also so great a revolution in our habits of thought, and methods of investigating morbid phenomena and tracing the etiology of disease, as has the late Dr. Richard Bright. To those who have received the knowledge of the connections of dropsy, albuminous urine, and disease of the kidney, among the first rudiments of medicine, the facts which establish that connection may appear so simple and easily ascertained, that the amount of labour, the accuracy of the observation and the rigid adherence to the inductive method which characterised the whole of Bright's researches, may hardly have been suspected, still less adequately appreciated. Richard bright was born at Bristol in September 1789, his father being a member of the wealthy banking firm of Ames, Bright, Cave, and his elder brother subsequently representing Bristol in three parliaments. His early education was conducted by Dr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.