The medical side of Benjamin Franklin / by William Pepper.

  • William Pepper
Date:
1911
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Credit: The medical side of Benjamin Franklin / by William Pepper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Franklin, Benjamin, describes attack of gout, 52, 80, 90, 109 Discusses elephant’s teeth, 47 Discusses how long infection may remain in dead bodies, 82, 93 Discusses lead poisoning, 48, 103 Discusses nyctalopia, Draws up report of commission to investigate Mesmer, 85, 87, 88, 89 Election to Royal Society, 18, 19, 60 Experiments in treatment of gout, 80 Experiments on amount of perspira¬ tion, 61, 62, 63 Has malaria, 75 His advice requested in treatment of a paralytic, 90 His “art of procuring pleasnat dreams,” 111 His “dialogue between Franklin and the gout, ”81 His machine for exhibiting the circulation of the blood, 84 His medical friends in Edinburgh, 43,56, His opinion sought on Russian vapor baths, His theory that colds are not caused by dampness or draughts or cold alone, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 71, 73, 74, 77, 99 His treatment of fever and pain in the side, 30 Improved the pulse-glass, 84 Invents a flexible catheter, 28 Invention of bifocal lenses, 95, 97 Many of his friends medical men, 12 Member of Royal Medical Society of Paris, 81 Not a medical graduate, 10 On animal magnetism, 88 On absorption and perspiration, 22, 63, 64, 70, 77, 80, 100 On “catching cold,” 41, 50, 60, 63, 73, 74, 77, 100 On dangers of cold water when overheated, 59 On distilling spirit from milk, 83 On exercise with dumb bells, 111 On exercise, 52, 80, 90, 109 On fever and ague, 15 On flesh of animals killed by elec¬ tricity, 62 On fresh air, 63, 74, 100, 112 On holding surgeons as prisoners, 78 On imbibing and discharging pores of skin, 40, 63, 69, 71, 113 On infant mortality, 97 On inoculation, 15 On long-continued fever, 50 On medical education, 55, 56 Franklin, Benjamin, on overeating and drinking, 64, 68, 74 On preventing colds, 65, 66 On prevention of disease, 59 On race suicide, 95 On rate of pulse, 59 On resuscitation of drowned flies, 61 On sea-sickness, 48 On swimming as means of stopping diarrhoea, 59 On swimming as an exercise, 59 On the cause of the heat of the blood, 24 On the cold and hot fits of some fever, 24 On the circulation of the blood, 22, 23, 64, 69 Pennsylvania Hospital, 12, 16, 17, 18,19, 46, 48, 60,117 Persuades Dr. Heberden to write an account of the success of inocu¬ lation and writes introduction to same, 34 Proposed paper on catching cold, 60, 63, 64 Proposes Dr. Dubourg and Sir John Pringle for membership in Ameri¬ can Philosophical Society, 60 Receives honorary degree of Doctor in Laws from University of St. Andrew’s, 10 Recommends bathing in cold water, 49 Requested to cure a case of gout, 90 Sells Sir Hans Sloan a purse, 14 Son Francis dies of smallpox, 15 States that, “the cold fever is com¬ municable by the breath to others,” 71 Suggests cooling applications to re¬ duce fever and inflammation, 33 Suggests experiment for testing effect of lime water on bladder, 29 Suggests sitting in water to relieve thirst, 40, 50 Suggests that some sort of effluvia in the air cause colds, 65, 66, 67, 71, 72, 100 Supposed to have discovered a cure for dropsy, 76 Treats patients with electricity, 29, 31, 92, 111 Tries a vegetable diet, 13 Writes letters of introduction for John Morgan, 41, 42 Election to Royal Society, 18, 19, 60 Franklin, Deborah Read (wife of B. F.), 30, 45, 52, 76, 102 Franklin, John (brother of B. F.), 28 Franklin, William (son of B. F.), 57, 58
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