Autobiographical Recollections of the Medical Profession (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. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... 458 sir henry holland. In all the relations of life, as husband, father, friend, or Medical adviser, Robert Wade was most exemplary. He literally "died in harness." He rose in the morning in his usual health, saw patients until one o'clock, was seized with apoplexy at two, and breathed his last at four. He died 16th January, 1872, in his 74th year. sir henry holland, bart., M.D, F.R.S., D.C.L. Whatever objections may be raised to autobiographical recollections, it is certain that the specimens which we have of this kind of history of the members of our own Profession are few and far between. Looking to their interest and and importance, I think it will be an object of regret to all that they have not been more numerous. Whatever may have been the shortcomings of Sir Benjamin Brodie's "Recollections," and however coloured (as they were) by personal bias and unquestionable prejudices, no one could rise from their perusal without being convinced that Brodie rendered good service to his brethren by their publication. Brodie had a practice as extensive, if not more so, than Sir Henry Holland, yet he confines his reminiscences to those with "Recollections of a Life." By Sir H. Holland, M.D., &c. Longmans. sir henry holland. 459 whom he was more immediately associated in the practice of his Profession. We have now to deal with a work of a very different kind. Fascinating, able, and graphic it undoubtedly is, and as the record of the life of a man who has filled a very important position, Sir Henry Holland's "Recollections" must be regarded as a most valuable contribution to the history of the age in which he lives. He was born at Knutsford, on October 27, 1781, on the very verge of the French Revolution. He early im