WILLIAM BUCHAN: MEDICINE LAID OPEN

William Buchan: medicine laid open.

THE AUTHORSHIP OF DOMESTIC MEDICINE MEDICAL WORKS for the layman in the eighteenth century reflect the diversity of the contemporary medical doctrines which they implicitly transmitted to the public. These books did however distort the teachings of the schools in a variety of ways: by their use of the vernacular and less technical language; their practical emphasis; through the ingenuity or oth...

Dr William Buchan (1729-1805) and his Domestic medicine.

William Buchan was born in Ancram in Roxburghshire in 1729 where his father had a small estate. Even during his school days he acted as amateur doctor to the village. In about 1749, he went to Edinburgh to study divinity, supporting himself by teaching mathematics to fellow students. Changing to the study of medicine under the elder Gregory, he qualified around 1758. The following year he was a...

Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine

William Hill and the Ormskirk Medicine

probably in the first century A.D. at the beginning of the Roman Empire. It is probable that later the interest in these amulets gradually decreased, as in the first century a rather important Christian community arose in Ephesos. The gentiles who became Christians renounced the amulets with Ephesian formulas and burned them. This fact proves that together with metallic tesserae wooden and leat...

William Osler: a life in medicine

his unwillingness to publish" (p. 102); he points out that misunderstandings "were Semmelweis's fault and no one else's" (p. 100). But there is no reason to think these judgements inaccurate or unfair; Semmelweis was, and remains, a difficult figure. If Loudon has introduced nothing new, he has recounted Semmelweis's part in the puerperal fever story with an admirable lack of sentimentality. Lo...