Volume 1

The healing art, or, Chapters upon medicine, diseases, remedies, and physicians, historical, biographical and descriptive / by W. H. Davenport Adams.

  • William Henry Davenport Adams
Date:
1887
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Credit: The healing art, or, Chapters upon medicine, diseases, remedies, and physicians, historical, biographical and descriptive / by W. H. Davenport Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    Fhysic; Thomson^ History of Chemistry; Dr. Carpenter, Principles of Physiology; Sir Benjamin Brodie, Psychological Inquiries; G. Bettany, Eminent Doctors ; etc. The plan adopted has precluded me from dwelling, except incidentally, on what may be called the romantic side of Medicine—on the remarkable facts connected with obscare symptoms of disease, on curiosities of diagnosis, on mental phenomena, on curiosities of medical experience, on startling incidents in the detection of crime, and surprises in the way of cures. Yet the historical and biographical aspects which these two volumes consider are not without a strong and enduring interest; at least, they cannot fail to confirm the reader in a grateful sense of all that the world owes to the Healing Art and its professors ; to . . . . The holy art whose lifted shield Wards ofE the darts a never-slumbering foe, By hearth, and wayside lurking, waits to throw. THE AUTHOR. [It is desirable to state that the present work was planned and approved by the publishers two years ago. A regrettable mischance has removed the sketch of Sir Henry Holland to the Chapter (Vol. II.) on English Surgeons,^^ from its proper place at the close of the chapter on English Physicians in the Nineteenth Century.'']