The gold-headed cane by William MacMichael (1783-1839)

The Gold-Headed Cane

The Gold-Headed Cane, by WILLIAM MACMICHAEL, facsimile of 1827 ed., with introduction by Thomas Hunt, London, Royal College of Physicians, 1968, pp. 26 + 179, illus., £4. William Macmichael (1783-1839), M.D. Oxon., F.R.C.P., F.R.S., was educated at Bridgnorth Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford. After graduating in Arts he studied medicine at Edinburgh and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Londo...

The tradition of the gold-headed cane.

The passing on of a gold-headed cane from an older to a younger physician as a sign of high regard and affection became a common practice in the eighteenth century.2,3 This tradition was imaginatively captured in The Gold-Headed Cane, written in 1827 by William Macmichael.1,4 Through nine editions, the book has acquired an elevated status in medicine, and the presentation of a gold-headed cane ...

A Continual Remembrance. Letters from Sir William Osler to his Friend Ned Milburn 1865–1919

The Gold-Headed Cane, by WILLIAM MACMICHAEL, facsimile of 1827 ed., with introduction by Thomas Hunt, London, Royal College of Physicians, 1968, pp. 26 + 179, illus., £4. William Macmichael (1783-1839), M.D. Oxon., F.R.C.P., F.R.S., was educated at Bridgnorth Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford. After graduating in Arts he studied medicine at Edinburgh and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Londo...

1839 WILLIAM WILSON Edgar

(1809-49)-American poet, short-story writer, and critic who is best known for his tales of ratiocination, his fantastical horror stories, and his genre-founding detective stories. Poe, whose cloudy personal life is a virtual legend, considered himself primarily a poet. William Wilson (1839)-A tale about a man's struggle with his conscience — an allegory in which William Wilson meets William Wil...

Sir William Lawrence (1783-1867); a study of pre-Darwinian ideas on heredity and variation.