Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ighteenth century the best surgeons occupied asgood a position socially as the best physicians. The members of the Surgeons Company soon availed them-selves to the uttermost of their liberty to teach. Percivall Pottbegan to deliver lectures at his house in Watling Street in theyear 1747. They were private at the outset, being intendedsolely for the students who followed his surgical practice in theneighbouri
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ighteenth century the best surgeons occupied asgood a position socially as the best physicians. The members of the Surgeons Company soon availed them-selves to the uttermost of their liberty to teach. Percivall Pottbegan to deliver lectures at his house in Watling Street in theyear 1747. They were private at the outset, being intendedsolely for the students who followed his surgical practice in theneighbouring hospital of St. Bartholomew. They were given atfirst with hesitation and reserve, but as the lecturer gained MEDICINE AXD PUBLIC HEALTH, 174-2-1802. 573 confidence his style improved, and the course eventually becameso celebrated that all the most distinguished English prac-titioners of surgery and many foreign ones boasted themselveshis pupils. John Hunter himself was an auditor in 1751. The reform of midwifery in England is due to William and to James Douglas, the friend of the Hunters. Smellie,who had been a humble practitioner in Lanarkshire, settled as an. TUE ANATOMIST IN TROUBLE. (From a satirical prini of 1773.) apothecary in Pall Mall aljout 1739. He had spent a short timein France, and had there imbibed the spirit of the youngerGregoires teaching. This teaching he reproduced in Londonin an improved form, and with such success that the battleof man-midwifery raged round him for many years. The menconquered, and their oljstetric art is now based upon the best kindof knoAvledge, a thorough acquaintance with normal conditions. Pathology, or the science of the cause of disease, did not exist the first half of the eighteenth century. Morbid anatomyitself, which is the basis of pathology, was as yet hardly examinations, indeed, were made, but the resultswere neither recorded nor tabulated, unless in exceptional cases. 574
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