William Cadogan [His essay on gout] / by John Ruhräh.

  • William Cadogan
Date:
1925
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Credit: William Cadogan [His essay on gout] / by John Ruhräh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    flourishing. A protege of Cullen, he an¬ nounced a theory known as the Brunonian, a theory actually taken seriously for a quarter of a century and which comes down to us even until today in the textbook use of the words sthenic and asthenic. Smellie was doing obstetrics, the Hunters and Percival Pott, surgery, and medicine was represented by such men as Cullen, the older Heberden and John Fothergill, when Cadogan decided to give up his work in Bristol and move up to London to make a place and a name for himself. Of this old worthy we know but little: a treatise on gout, an essay on the nursing and nourishment of young children, and his literary work is nearly compassed. But whilst he threw few stones into the pond, he created a great splash; he used large stones and he flung with force. The fact that medical history was largely neglected by the English makes it difficult to supply interesting biographical facts about many of her great physicians and surgeons. In many cases one has to read •f2f-