WILLIAM CADOGAN, EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PHYSICIAN

William Prout: early 19th century physician-chemist.

In the early 19th century, the discoveries of new substances in the healthy and diseased body spawned a search for chemical explanations for physiologic phenomena to guide medical diagnosis and control therapy. William Prout's work on the nature and treatment of diseases of the urinary organs established his reputation as one of Britain's most distinguished physiological chemists. Prout was ver...

William Hunter and the eighteenth-century medical world

divergence of the two disciplines and Sander with their reconciliation in developmental genetics. Allen summarizes much of the work on this subject and speculates that American breeding interests were responsible for providing impetus for the separation. He states that "the dichotomy between embryology and genetics was inevitable" and that Morgan was the "unplanned agent" of this separation. Sa...

An Eighteenth-century surgeon and apothecary: William Elmhirst (1721-1773).

ALTHOUGH general accounts of the eighteenth-century development of the medical profession exist, in particular that by Bernice Hamilton,' it is rare to be allowed an insight into the day-by-day practice of medicine.2 The survival of William Elmhirst's medical ledger for the years between 1768 and his untimely death in 1773 chronicles in great detail not only the accounts of his dealings with pa...

Eighteenth-Century Europe

Chapter 6: Varieties of the Public Sphere To this point, we have encountered changes, as well as continuity, in European politics, economics, society, and thought. Each of these developments contributed to a transformation that some consider the most fundamental transformation of the century -the emergence, between the state sector and private economic sphere, of autonomous institutions of civi...

Eighteenth-Century Europe