An inquiry into the nature and properties of the blood, in health and disease / by Charles Turner Thackrah.

Date:
1834
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Credit: An inquiry into the nature and properties of the blood, in health and disease / by Charles Turner Thackrah. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    don, where his regular attendance on the lectures, Guy's Hospital, and practical anatomy, became an object of remark. He was especially distinguished as a student by Sir Astley Cooper. In October, 1815, he entered the Physical Society at Guy's; and about the same time he experienced the first attack of that visceral affection from which he suf- fered occasionally during the remainder of his exist- ence. Close study, and long confinement in the dissecting rooms, with accidental exposure to cold and wet, induced a serious disease of the mucous coat of the intestines, and his health declined rapidly under the effects of pain and profuse diarrhoea. Still, however, his exertions were unremitting. It is stated in his diary that his usual hours of study were from seven in the morning to half-past eleven at night; and although his bodily sufferings were severe, his chief cause for uneasiness was '* lest he should lose opportunities of gaining improvement, and spend his time without adequate advantage.'* In the spring of 1816 he passed the examinations at Apothecaries' Hall, and the College of Surgeons, and his essay on Diabetes gained the Physical Society's prize of several valuable medical works. After his return to Leeds he remained a short time with his friends, and at the commencement of 1817 he resolved upon endeavouring to establish a practice of his own. His health was still much impaired, and domestic afflictions combined to give the tone of his feelings a decidedly melancholic ten-