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Dr. Butler revisited.
WILLIAM BuTLER, Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, was famous in his lifetime as a medical eccentric, whose practice could only with difficulty be classified under any school-theory. His papers, preserved in the Fellows' Library at Clare, confirm that he was humane and forthright, not tied to any philosophical system but with ideas pointing towards the testing of remedies by trials and of theo...
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aegrum: "Have burdened the sick man." 442, line 6. The right reading is "Impotencye." 442, line 14. The quotation reads: Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum. Grata superveniet quae non sperabitur hora. Believe that every day which has shone on you has been your last. Each hour will then come as a pleasure through being unexpected. The source is Horace Epistles 1.4.14, and is appropriate ad...
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OCCASIONALLY DOCTORS' letters may be of more interest to medical historians than their published writings. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the elegance of a physician's literary style was often more highly regarded than the astuteness of his clinical observations or the efficacy of his treatment. Medical books tended to be inflated with dubious hypotheses and the few worthwhile reme...
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Beddoes lectured on chemistry at Oxford in the years that included the French Revolution, the Terror, and the outbreak of war with France, as well as the success in France of the chemical revolution. The very public dispute between Edmund Burke and Joseph Priestley meant that the latter's study of different kinds of air was politically tainted. Beddoes's democratic beliefs and his support for t...
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Thomas Willis is considered one of the greatest neuroanatomists of all time. His name is usually associated with the circle of Willis, an anastomotic circle at the base of the brain, but his work also formed the foundation of basic neuroanatomical description and nomenclature, and comparative neuroanatomy. He was born on 27 January 1621 at Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, England, the son of a farmer...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1086/508778