Dr. Charles Badham : Professor of the Practice of Medicine in the University of Glasgow, 1827-1841 / by James Finlayson.

  • James Finlayson
Date:
1900
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    DR. CHARLES BADHAM: Professor of the Practice of Medicine in the University of Glasgow—1827-1841.1 By JAMES FINLAYSON, M.D., LL.D. “Bronchitis” is a word which lias become a great favourite, botli with the profession and the public. In the New English Dictionary, Dr. Murray attributes its introduction to P. Frank and to Dr. Badham, giving priority to Frank as using it in 1812 as compared with Badham in 1814.2 Apparently, the earlier edition of Badham’s work, in 1808, has been overlooked. The word bronchitis does not occur in the title page of the first edition; but it occurs repeatedly in the text, and also in the heading of chapter iv. The word, indeed, occurs m the index of the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, vol. iv, 1808, in a review of “ Badham on Bronchitis.” Unless, therefore, some earlier work than Franks Interpvetationes Clinicce, 1812, can be adduced, the merit of priority of use, such as it is, belongs to Badham. But this is merely a ques- tion of the word. The notion of the disease being really an inflammation of the bronchi did not arise with Badham, as he himself indicates in his little book (p. 25)—Observation* on the Inflammatory A ffections of the Mucous Membrane of the Bronchial, 12mo, London, 1808, pp. 133. } c Attention was called recently to Badham s work by IJi. ► . Gee, in his Lumleian Lectures on “ Bronchitis, &c., March, 1 Portion of an address delivered to the Eastern Medical Society of Glasgow, 21st March, 1900, “On Some Medical Men in Glasgow Sixty ~y^ 2 “ Bronchitis.—Med. [Mod. L. f. bronchi, bronchia + itis (== Gr— It«.) q.v. First brought into use by P. Frank, Interpretationes Clmzcce (1812) i, 10, and Bodham [sic] Inflammatory Affections oj Bronchia (1814)J. Inflammation of the bronchial mucous membrane.—1814, J. Burns, 1 nnc. Midwifery (ed. 3), X, 565 Bronchitis is far from being an uncommon disease of infants.” &c.