John Smith's Sacred anatomy / by Sir Humphry Rolleston.

  • Rolleston, Humphry Davy, Sir, 1862-1944.
Date:
[1920?]
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Credit: John Smith's Sacred anatomy / by Sir Humphry Rolleston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7 With the Author^s Cow/ptimenU. JOHN SMITH’S SACHET) ANATOMY. [Delivered before the Medical Society of the Middlesex Hospital on March 26th, 1920.)* Bj Sir Humphry Eolleston^ K.C.B., M.D., F.E.C.P. Soon after I received Dr. Campbell’s Tliomson’s flattering invitation to address yon, I came on a book of 527 pages on Geriatricsf {’yrjpa<; = old age, Larpt/cy — medicine), a w^ord obviously formed on tlie analogy of Pediatrics by Dr. Nascber, the author, to describe a branch of medicine in ’which it is to be hoped you will all live to take a personal interest. This new word has taken root in New York, its birth place, where there has been a Geriatric Society since 1914, and since January 1917 the Medical Eeview of Eeviews has had a special department for Geriatrics or the study of senile conditions, in which there was recently an articlej on an ascitic man of 55 years, possibly to some of us a somewhat startling example of precocious senility. The study of the pathology and disorders of the aged lacks the attraction of children’s affections, and yet it has points of interest, as I long ago found ’vvhen after being a house physician I acted for some weeks as assistant to the Medical Officer of the Old Charterhouse, where the natural expectation that each and allot the poor brethren would reproduce Thackeray’s Colonel Newcome was destined to disappointment. Usually, how» ever, the taste for the practice of medicine among the aged is an acquired one. Most of the writers on the diseases of old age, such as Cornaro, Sir Anthony Carlisle, Charcot, Sir George Humphry, Sir Hermann Weber, and Dr. E. Saundby, have been approaching the sere and yellow, and perhaps were moved to their labours by the maxim, Physician, heal thyself.” The writer of the old book which forms the text for occupying a few minutes of your time to-night—Dr. John . Smith (1630-—1679)—was only 3| years old when in 166^, K ^ E/eprinted from The Middlesex Hospital Journal, 1919-20, xxi,, 115—123. t Geriatrics. The Diseases of Old Age and their Treatment, by I. L. Kascher, M.D. 2nd edition 1919; 1st edition 1914. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., New York and London. X Mediccd Review of Reviews, New York, 1920, xxvi., 37.