Auto-Biography (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1905. Excerpt: ... of illustrations were subjected to examination by Professor Ouekett (Royal College of Surgeons), who confirmed my observations. The medical press--e.g., the Lancet--and the general press of the United Kingdom took up my ' New Inquiry, ' and it appeared also in many foreign journals, receiving additional support by many able leading articles. The ' New Inquiry' was dedicated to the agriculturalists of Great Britain and Ireland, and for the consideration of the Smithfield Cattle Club. Numerous letters of thanks I received, from H.R.H. the Prince Consort, the Duke of Richmond, and other leading exhibitors and breeders. It is a somewhat notable incidence that my first book, on 'Diseased Cattle, ' should be one tending to the reform of a radically wrong system of national interest and importance from a sanitary point of view, and that a book, more than forty years afterwards, 'Mock Nurses, ' should touch the reform of a system of nursing which has grown into an evil of even greater national concern, having a moral significance, as well as pertaining to the ills of the flesh, in nursing hands of ignorance and vice. The Guidance of Pathology at the Bedside in the Diagnosis of Diseases and Injuries and in the Performance of Surgical Operations constituted the subject-matter of another 'New Inquiry' in a series of Ten Original Papers, which, subsequently, were developed into my work--' The Principles of Surgery; Clinical, Medical, and Operative.' These papers were published in the Lance/, 1857, with the title, 'What has Pathological Anatomy done for Medicine and Surgery?' The clinical and therapeutic aspects of surgery, as viewed from this standpoint, are followed by the guidance of pathological anatomy in operative surgery. Written nearly fifty years ago, when operative surgery was emerging fr...