In memoriam, George Rainey : his life, work, and character / by W.W. Wagstaffe.

  • William Warwick Wagstaffe
Date:
1894
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Credit: In memoriam, George Rainey : his life, work, and character / by W.W. Wagstaffe. 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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    Reprinted from Vol. XXII of ‘ St. Thomas’s Hospital Reports.’] 3n iWcmotfam. GEORGE RAINEY: HIS LIFE. WORK, AND CHARACTER. ' By W. W. WAGSTAFFE. I. The Man. There is probably no character and personality better re- membered amongst St. Thomas’s men than that of George Rainey. For nearly sixty years he was daily to be seen at work in the medical school, and for nearly forty years of that time he was a teacher of anatomy and demonstrator of the microscope. It seems most natural to anyone giving an account of his life to look at him in the three phases of existence which St. Thomas’s Hospital itself went through within the know- ledge of many of us. AT THE THREE HOMES OP ST. THOMAS. In the old hospital at London Bridge the dissecting-room was a large one for that time—probably it would be only a small one to our present ideas,—and at one end of it there ran up a staircase along the wall, obliquely up to a