Photographs of Eminent Medical Men, of All Countries, with Brief Analytical Notices of Their Works (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ... in this large undertaking, and subsequently Dr. Conolly, besides furnishing several articles, gave his assistance as a third editor. The work was favoured with the contributions of not less than sixty-seven physicians, including the names of Alison, Apjohn, Bardsley, Barlow, Beatty, Bostock, Carswell, Cheyne, Christison, Clark, Clutterbuck, Corrigan, Crampton, Adair Crawford, Elliotson, Gregory, Charles Hastings, Marshall Hall, Hope, Joy, Law, Robert Lee, Locock, Montgomery, Prichard, Paris, Jones Quain, Robertson, Roget, Stokes, Symonds, A. T. Thomson, Thomas Thomson, T. J. Todd, R. B. Todd, Townsend, Watson, and Williams. Dr. Tweedie contributed the articles 'Abscess/ 'Colic/ 'Convalescence/ 'Erysipelas/ 'Exanthemata/ 'Continued Fever/ 'Inflammation' (jointly with Dr. A. Crawford), 'Miliaria/ 'Roseola/ 'Scarlatina/ and 'Diseases of the Throat. ' The 'Cyclopaedia' had at once an extensive circulation, and the whole of a large edition was soon disposed of. It embodied the results of the experience of the most eminent practitioners of the age, and while it may not have the advantage of such a unity of treatment as belongs to Dr. Copland's 'Dictionary/ it has merits of another kind. But a comparison between the respective advantages of the two works, would be opening a question unsuitcd for discussion in this place. To provide for students a work less expensive than the 'Cyclopaedia/ Dr. Tweedie, afterwards, devised the 'Library of Medicine/ of which he was the sole editor. The volumes on 'Practical Medicine' were first published, and were intended as a guide to the more advanced student and young practitioner. It embraced all the more recent discoveries in the several departments of practical medicine, while to insure, as much as...