Remarks on army surgeons and their works / by Charles Alexander Gordon.

  • Charles Alexander Gordon
Date:
1870
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Remarks on army surgeons and their works / by Charles Alexander Gordon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

    124/132 (page 106)
    injury in a wounded artery; and he ^vas among the first, if not the earhest, surgeon, to lay down clear instructions as to the manner m which these injuries should he treated. 4. General Suhjects.—Vndev this head I would include such subjects as cannot be appropriately embraced under either of the preceding, observing, however, that as in the remarks already made, so in the few which follow, I pretend to nothing more than a slight glance at a few of the more important labours of my brethren in the medical department of the army. To enter fully into them would far exceed the limits now at my command. Topography.~-J)^. Cleghorn, as has already been recorded, pubhshed a topographical account of ]\Iinorca, together with a summary of the flora and the fauna of that island. Hennen's Topography of the Mediterranean Islands was a few years ago the standard work on the subject to which it referred. Marshall's work on Ceylon contained much valuable informa- tion, topographical and medical. Halliday's West Inches was also a standard work in reference to those islands; and, more recently. Dr. Kelaart published on the Natural History of Ceylon and Gibraltar. Medical Schools.—Among the army medical officers who have founded or embellished professional schools I shall now mention only a few. At the end of the sixteenth century, Peter Low, on retiring from the service, founded that of Glasgow; Dr. Cleghorn, about the middle of the eighteenth century, became a teacher of anatomy in the University of Dublin; and in 1759 Dr. Francis Home taught materia medica in that of Edin- burgh. Lcirrey, while at IMilan -with the advanced guard com- manded by Bernadotte, established a school of medicine there. Ill 1816, Dr. Thomson, having left the army, became Eegius Professor of Military Surgery in Edinburgh, being at his death, some years after^vards, succeeded by Sir George Balingall; and Guthrie, as is well known, taught surgery most success- fully in London. To army medical officers, also, we are indebted for the first idea of a large public school for that branch of the service, such as Netley now is. In 1798, John Bell addressed Earl Spencer on the subject; and in 1819 Dr. Millingen submitted various suggestions with the same object. Convalescents.—The system at one time in force of discharging partially-recovered men from hospital was protested against by Sir James IMcGrigor, and afterwards by Sir J ames'Eello^^'es. Recndts.—In 1791 Dr. John Bell protested against the sys- tem of recruiting then in use for regiments just raised for