Quaker contributions to medicine & public health / by Cyril C. Barnard.

  • Barnard, Cyril Cuthbert.
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[1938]
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    criptions legibly Dr. Hodgkin enabled patients to have them dispensed where they wished. This, and his free consultations to poor patients who crowded his waiting room every morning, made him some¬ what unpopular amongst certain members of his profession. Sir Jonathan Hutchinson (1828-1913)* was one of the most versatile medical men. He was a gen¬ eral surgeon, an ophthalmologist, a neurologist, a dermatologist and a syphilologist, while as an obser¬ ver of all kinds of rare manifestations he had no equal. His views upon the causation of leprosy had a wide vogue at the time, but have since been dis¬ proved. His main interest was syphilis, and in the course of his practice he saw a vast number of patients suffering from this disease. He is best known for his description of the deformity of the teeth, characteristic of hereditary syphilis, and known as ‘‘Hutchinson's teeth.” Joseph Lister (1827-1912)+ was born at Upton House, Upton, Essex, and was brought up in a thoroughly Quaker atmosphere, which left its mark upon him for life. He was educated at two Quaker schools, at Hitchin and Tottenham, and at Univer¬ sity College, London, where he took his B.A. in 1847, before beginning his medical studies. He was present at the first operation under ether anaesthesia in England. This was performed bv Robert Liston in 1846 in University College Hos¬ pital. Lister took his M.B. and his F.R.C.S. in * [Newman (Sir George)] Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, Friends' Quarterly Examiner, 1913, pp. 305-321. t Cheyne (Sir William Watson) Lister and his achieve¬ ment. London, 1925. Godlee (Sir Rickman John) Lord Lister. 3rd edit. Oxford, 1924. Singer (Charles) A short history of medicine. Oxford, 1928.