Sir William Jenner
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was, by common consent, the recognised leader in this country. Nor can lapse of time efface his claims to remembrance: he has left too many behind him who have been indebted to his wise counsel for health, to his luminous teaching for knowledge, to his upright example for conduct. This is not the place to sketch, even in outline, the history of his life; that has been amply done elsewhere. Suffice it to say that, beginning in obscurity, he won for
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The last moments of H.R.H. the Prince Consort.
No event in which Queen Victoria's medical household was involved caused more controversy than the unexpected death of Albert, Prince Consort, at Windsor Castle on the night of Saturday 14 December 1861. He was forty-two years old. The event evoked many memorials, among them a massive painting of the Prince's last moments (Fig. 1), in which the four attending physicians stand in an isolated gro...
متن کاملA letter of Edward Jenner (1749-1823).
IN 1773 Edward Loveden Loveden of Buscot Park in Berkshire married Margaret Pryse, heiress of the thirty thousand acre Cardiganshire estate of Gogerddan. In consequence a considerable bulk of Loveden's papers are to be found in the hitherto unscheduled Gogerddan archive in the National Library of Wales. Although he has not been accorded the dignity of an entry in the Dictionary of National Biog...
متن کاملThe Fleece Medical Society
the Old Fleece Inn. The original building in which Jenner and his friends met is now a private residence Hillgrove House on the A46 (Figure 1). Two of the five members founding the Fleece Medical Society, Edward Jenner of Berkeley and John Hickes of Gloucester, were already members of the Convivio-Medical Society meeting at the Ship Inn at Alveston near Bristol, a largely social club whose memb...
متن کاملNotes on Some Recent Epidemics at Home and Abroad. Inaugural Address of Session 1885-86
retirement, to contribute to this Society, and so to the profession and the public, the matured results of much thoughtful observation and world-wide experience. During the twenty-three years I have enjoyed the privileges of Associate and office-bearer many changes have occurred in the composition of our Society, and also, to some extent, in its functions and scope of action. In 1862 the scienc...
متن کاملIdiopathic Thrombosis of the Portal and Contributory Veins
The history and course of the case which was recently under my care at the Children's Hospital is singularly complete, and consequently interesting, for the boy was under the observation either of my colleagues or myself for eight years. It is as well, perhaps, to admit at the beginning of this paper that the condition which was found post mortem was not diagnosed during life, but in this I do ...
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