In memoriam : Edmund A. Parkes / [Sir William Aitken].

  • William Aitken
Date:
1876
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Credit: In memoriam : Edmund A. Parkes / [Sir William Aitken]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX. EPITOME (NECESSARILY IMPERFECT) OF WRITINGS BY DR. PARKES. On the Dysentery and Hepatitis of India. 8vo, 1846. On Asiatic and Algide Cholera. 8vo, 1847. An Inquiry into the Bearing of the Earliest Cases of Cholera which occurred in London on the strict theory of contagion. London, Churchill, 8vo, 1849. Lectures on Clinical Medicine delivered at University College Hospital, published in Medical Times and Gazette, commencing vol. xx., 1849, p. 469 ; continued in vol. xxi. for 1850; also in 1852, April 22, and July 8, 1S54, and Feb. 28, 1S57. [These lectures are models of diagnostic analysis, abounding in sound and far-seeing pathological exposition, full of suggestive hints in therapeutics and in the curative and preventive manage- ment of diseases. They are well worthy of reproduction in any collected edition of Dr. Parkes’ works.] The editing and completing of a posthumous edition of Dr. A. T. Thomson’s Treatise on Skin Diseases. Svo, 1850. [Dr. T. had completed this work (of 440 pp.) up to p. 304, and had left in MS. the chapters on Acne and Sycosis. With the exception of these two chapters, Dr. Parkes wrote the remainder of this work of his relative, from the commencement of “ The Tubercular Eruptions.”] On the Decomposition of Chloride of Sodium by Acetic Acid in the presence of Albumen. Medical Times and Gazette, vol. xxii., p. 84, 1S50. Lecture introductory to opening of Session of University College, London, Oct., 1851. Published in Medical Times and Gazette of that date. Editing articles in British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Bevieio, 1852, et seq. [For this periodical he wrote many reviews anonymously, which for obvious reasons cannot be named here.] On the Formation of Crystals in Human Blood. Medical Times and Gazette, vol. xxvi., 1852. On the Precipitation of Albumen by Acids and Neutral Salts. Medical Times and Gazette, 1852, On Recurrent Watery Diarrhoea with Choleraic Attacks. Medical Times and Gazette, 1852. On the Elimination of Lead by Iodide of Potassium. Article in British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, Ap. 1853, p. 522. On the Action of Liquor Potassce on the Urine in Health. Article in British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, Jan., 1853, p. 258; continued in same journal for Jan., 1854, p. 248 ; and again, in relation to its Influence in some Chronic Diseases, in same journal for Oct., 1854, p. 498. Review of Dr. E. J. Waring’s work On Abscess of the Liver. British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, July, 1855, p. 1. Gulstonian Lectures on Pyrexia. Published in Medical Times and Gazette, vol. xxxi., 1855. Critical Days in Pneumonia—Value of Bleeding. Lancet, 1855, vol. i., p. 36.