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

  • William Aitken
Date:
1876
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    Treatment of Pneumonia by Wine and Ammonia. Lancet, 1855, p. 128. Pteport on the Formation and General Management of Renkioi Hospital on the Dardanelles, Turkey, during the Russian War, 1854-56. Addressed to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for War. Published in 1857. On Pigment Deposit in the Skin (so-called bronzed skin), without disease of Supra-Renal Capsules. Medical Times and Gazette, vol. xxxviii. Dec. 11 1858. On the Value of Albuminaria as a Symptom of Kidney Disease. Medical Times and Gazette, Jan. 1, 1859. On Acute Sthenic Pneumonia left without Treatment. Medical Times and Gazette, Feb. 25, 1860. Composition of the Urine in Health and Disease, and under the Action of Remedies, 1860. Introductory Lecture at University College, on the Influence of Self-Training by the Medical Student. Published by Walton & Maberly. Oct., 1856. [There were at least three hundred auditors assembled in the large theatre of the College, and it is written in the Lancet that “ the lecture was elegantly composed and well delivered, and was altogether much more appropriate, as an introduction to a Session, than those which for some years past we have chanced to hear on similar occasions.”—“ This lecture,” says the Medical Times, “ was written with great elegance and delivered with much feeling, elicited frequent marks of approbation, and was much applauded at its conclusion.” It cannot fail to be worthy of reproduction now.] Review of the Progress of Hygiene ; commenced in 1861, at the request of the then Director of the Army Medical Department (Sir James Gibson), and contributed by him annually to the Medical Reports of the Department up till 1875, the commencement of his fatal illness. [They are models of precis writing, and a most valuable record of the progress of Hygiene.] Report on “ Carniset,” a concentrated food. [This report is signed by the Pro- fessors of the Army Medical School; but the work was really done by Dr. Parkes, and published in Vol. I. of Departmental Reports for 1861.] Lecture on. opening Fifth Session of the Army Medical School—“ On the Cure of Old Age.” Oct. 11, 1862. Report on Liebig’s ‘ ‘ Extractum Carnis,” in Departmental Reports, Vol. V., 1863, p. 455. A Manual of Practical Hygiene, prepared especially for the use of the Medical Service of the Army. 1864, Four editions have been published. The Detachment of the Epithelium in Cholera. Aug. 25, 1866, in Medical Times. Report on the Power of Disinfectants in Preventing the Putrefaction of Sewage. Loc. cit., vol. viii. for 1866, p. 318. Report on Dr. Hassall’s “Flour of Meat.” Loc, cit,, vol. x. for 1866, p. 242. Reports on Filters. 1867 and 1868. Report on Three Samples of Water received from Pembroke Dock in March, 1870. Loc. cit., vol. xi. for 1S69, p. 361. Report “On a Cape Tent;” with Report on it as tried in the Autumn Manoeuvres, by Assistant-Surgeon Lane, 4th Regiment, Loc, cit., vol. xii., 1870, p. 260. Croonian Lectures on Nitrogenous Elimination, Published in Lancet, 1871. Royal Society Papers ( Transactions), “Elimination of Nitrogen during Muscular Action.” 1867 to 1871- Effects of Alcohol on the Human Body. 1870, 1872, and I§74. Transactions of the Royal Society. A Scheme of Medical Tuition. Published in the Lancet of 1S68, p. 441, et. seq. It was afterwards published and dedicated to Dr. Geo. Borrows, President of Council. Address to British Medical Association at meeting in London, 1873. On the Issue of a Spirit Ration during the Ashantee Campaign of 1874. London, Churchill, 1875.