A biographical history of Guy's Hospital / by Samuel Wilks and G.T. Bettany.

  • Wilks, Samuel, Sir, 1824-1911.
Date:
1892
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Credit: A biographical history of Guy's Hospital / by Samuel Wilks and G.T. Bettany. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Gerstein Science Information Centre at the University of Toronto, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto.

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    British Museum and to the City Guilds, and from his correspondence with Mr. A. A. Chirson, of Tamworth, which town Guy represented in Parliament. He was indebted to this gentleman for much information concerning Guy's almshouses there. Beside this life of Thomas Guy, Mr. Bettany wrote nearly all the biographies of the early physicians and surgeons to Guy's Hospital. He had promised also the lives of some of the most emhient members of the medical staff at the beginning of the present century. But as these had not been written, I had no hesitation in making use of several of the biogra- phical accounts contained in his Eminent Doctors. The principal value of the later biographies from my own hand lies in the fact that the subjects of them were personally known to me, and therefore all the chief points in their history still remain in my memory. My best thanks are clue to Mr. Targett, who has assisted me in revising the proof-sheets, and has con- tributed largely to the concluding section of the work. The ph()togra])lis from which the illustrations have been made were kindly taken by Mr. Hacquoil; and for help in various ways while the book has been passing through the press I am indebted to Mr. C. H. Wells, of the School Department. S. W. November 1892.