Address of the President at the annual meeting of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, Tuesday, March 1, 1859.

  • Locock, Charles, 1799-1875.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Address of the President at the annual meeting of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, Tuesday, March 1, 1859. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    1824 on the theory and practice of medicine, in connexion at first with Dr. Cholmely .and afterwards with Dr. Addison. In 1833 he delivered the Gulstonian Lectures on * The Functions of the Abdominal Viscera;' and, in 1837, the Lumleian Lectures on * Disorders of the Brain.' He was elected President of this So- ciety in 1837. Dr. Bright died on the 16th of December last, after an ilhiesa of only four days' duration, sinking from profuse haemorrhage from the stomach and bowels, connected with a long- standing disease of the aortic valves. Dr. Bright's many contributions to medical science are too well known to call for more than a short summary. A volume of * Elements of the Practice of Medicine' came out, in conjunction with Dr. Addison. In the * Gruy's Hospital Reports' there are many important papers from his pen: Observations on the Treatment of Fever, on Diseased Arteries of the Brain, papers on Tetanus, on Renal Disease, a Tabular view of one hundred cases of Albuminous Urine, Case of displacement of the Stomach, an article on Jaundice, and on Malignant Diseases of the Liver, on Tumours of the Brain and Spinal Cord, on Abdominal Tumours, and observations on Ovarian Disease, on The Pat];iology of the Spleen, &c. &c. In our own 'Transactions' there are four papers by him: A Case of Cutaneous Perspiration analysed by Dr. Bostock, on Diseases of the Pan- creas and Duodenum, on Adhesions and other morbid changes in the Peritoneum, and Cases of Spasmodic Disease accompany- ing affections of the Pericardium. But his magnum opus'^ was the large quarto volumes, illustrated by beautiful plates, with the simple title of ' Reports of Medical Cases,' the first of which ap- peared in 1827, and the second, in two parts, in 1831. The first volume treated of diseases of the kidney and lungs, and the patho- logy of fever. The second contains the papers on Cerebral and Spinal Diseases, with those affecting the nervous system, para- lysis, tetanus, epilepsy, hysteria, and hydrophobia. Upon aU these subjects Dr. Bright showed the most sagacious observation, the most untiring industry, and wonderful powers of investigating truth, the end and aim of all his work. He devoted many hours daily to the minute study of his cases in Gruy's Hospital,
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