Dickens and medicine : an exhibition of books, manuscripts and prints to mark the centenary of his death; with an introduction and bibliography.

  • Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine
Date:
1970
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Credit: Dickens and medicine : an exhibition of books, manuscripts and prints to mark the centenary of his death; with an introduction and bibliography. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MILLER, James. Principles of surgery. 2nd ed. Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1850. [15 Miller worked as Robert Liston's assistant in Edinburgh and became Professor of Surgery on the death of Charles Bell. On p.46 appears an account of hectic fever, along with an extract from Nicholas Nickleby. THE THIRD-YEAR student's correspondence on the existing abuses at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Corrected from the Lancet. With an address to the governors respecting the management and present condition of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. London: W. Kent, 1853. [16 CONOLLY, John. The treatment of the insane without mechanical restraints. London: Smith, Elder, 1856. [17 As early as 1839 Conolly began to treat the insane at Hanwell Asylum without using any form of restraint. AUSTIN, Henry. Report on the means of deodorizing and utilizing the sewage of towns; addressed to the... President of the General Board of Health. London: H.M.S.O., 1857. [18 Austin was the consulting engineer of the Sewer Commissioners and Dickens's brother-in-law. DICKENS, Charles. Autograph letter to Georgina Hosarth, his sister-in-law, con- cerning his health. London, 7 August 1857. [19 SELECT COMMITTEE ON LUNATICS. Report. 2 vols. [London,1859]. [20 In 1859 there were only forty county asylums. Apart from these and the public asylums it was the workhouses which were forced to look after indigent mentally sick, often without the provision of separate wards. NIGHTINGALE, Florence. Notes on nursing: what it is, and what it is not. London: Harrison, [1859] . [21 Cecil Woodham Smith in her life of Florence Nightingale says of Notes on nursing 'Neither its good sense nor its wit has dated, and [it] can be read today with enjoyment.' AITKEN, Sir William. The science and practice of medicine. 3rd ed. 2 vols. London: Griffin, 1864. [22 Sir William Aitken worked as a pathological anatomist in Scutari during the Crimean War and was nominated in 1857 to take charge of the Army Medical School planned by Florence Nightingale and Sidney Herbert. In Vol. 1, p. Ill, Aitken quotes a passage from Nicholas Nickleby.