Volume 1

Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie / by Timothy Holmes.

  • Timothy Holmes
Date:
1898
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie / by Timothy Holmes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of his time, and one of its most accomplished physiologists, but also, as is well said in the Preface to this Series, by its editor (whose loss we have now to deplore), he was “one of those who most largely helped to transform surgery from a handicraft to a science” ; and his success and reputation did much to elevate surgery to an equality with the other great professions, and to qualify its practitioners to consort on equal terms with the greatest celebrities in the world of science. I have tried in the following pages to set forth these various claims of Brodie to the gratitude and appreciation of posterity, how imperfectly no one can feel more than I do. Yet I hope that this book may do something to keep alive the memory of one of the most noteworthy figures of a past generation. For permission to use the striking portrait which Watts painted in the year 1860, we are indebted to the present holder of the title, who also himself photo- graphed it for our Frontispiece. Sir Benjamin V. S. Brodie has likewise supplied the account of the Brodie family in my first chapter, as well as subsequent notices of Brodie’s life in society and in the country. Il
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