See also:SIR See also:BENJAMIN See also:COLLINS See also:BRODIE
, 1st See also:Bart
.
(1783–1862), See also:English physiologist and surgeon, was See also:born in 1783 at See also:Winter-slow, See also:Wiltshire
.
He received his See also:early See also:education from his See also:father; then choosing See also:medicine as his profession he went to See also:London in 18o1, and attended the lectures of See also:John See also:Abernethy
.
Two years later he became a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:Sir Everard See also:Home at St See also:George's See also:hospital, and in 18o8 was appointed assistant surgeon at that institution, on the See also:staff of which he served for over See also:thirty years
.
In 18so he was elected a See also:fellow of the Royal Society, to which in the next four or five years he contributed several papers describing See also:original investigations in See also:physiology
.
At this See also:period also he rapidly obtained a large and lucrative practice, and from See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to time he wrote on surgical questions, contributing numerous papers to the Medical and Chiruigical Society, and to the medical See also:journals
.
Probably his most important See also:work is that entitled Pathological and Surgical Observations on the Diseases of the See also:Joints, in which he attempts to trace the beginnings of disease in the different tissues that See also:form a See also:joint, and to give an exact value to the symptom of See also:pain as See also:evidence of organic disease
.
This See also:volume led to the See also:adoption by surgeons of See also:measures of a conservative nature in the treatment of diseases of the joints, with consequent reduction in the number of amputations and the saving of many limbs and lives
.
He also wrote on diseases of the urinary See also:organs, and on See also:local See also:nervous affections of a surgical See also:character
.
In 1854 he published anonymously a volume of Psychological Inquiries; to a second volume which appeared in 1862 his name was attached
.
He received many honours during his career
.
He attended George IV., was sergeant-surgeon to See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William IV. and See also:Queen See also:Victoria, and was made a See also:baronet in 1834
.
He became a corresponding member of the See also:French See also:Institute in 1844, D.C.L. of See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford in 1855, and See also:president of the Royal Society in 1858, and he was the first president of the See also:general medical See also:council
.
He died at See also:Broome See also:Park, See also:Surrey, on the 21st of See also:October 1862
.
His collected See also:works, with auto-See also:biography, were published in 1865 under the editorship of See also:Charles See also:Hawkins
.
His eldest son, Sir See also:Benjamin See also:Collins See also:Brodie, 2nd Bart
.
(1817–188o), was appointed See also:professor of See also:chemistry at Oxford in 1865, and is chiefly known for his investigations on the allotropic states of See also:carbon and for his See also:discovery of graphitic See also:acid
.
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