In memoriam, Edmund Alexander Parkes : an address, read before the members of the Southampton Medical Society, on Tuesday, May 2nd, 1876 / by John Orsborn.

  • Orsborn, John, 1817-1883.
Date:
1876
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Credit: In memoriam, Edmund Alexander Parkes : an address, read before the members of the Southampton Medical Society, on Tuesday, May 2nd, 1876 / by John Orsborn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Nitrogen during muscular activity, and on the effects of Alcohol on the system; his exhaustive article on Influenza, in Reynolds^ System of Medicine; and last, though not least, his elaborate work on Practical Hygiene, which at once took full possession of the minds of all interested in the subjects of which it treats, and was admitted to be the most complete, comprehensive, and accurate treatise that had ever been published; and it must, I think, be conceded that to his efforts we are mainly indebted for the position to which the study of Hygiene has attained in this country, and for the general and practical application of its principles that now obtains. His authority and teaching gave to it an influence that eventually became irresistible, and the laws of health are now no longer shrouded in an ignorance worthy of the dark ages. Ignorance has been in a measure vanquished. There yet remain the foes of prejudice, parsimony, and cruel indifference. It is impossible, within the time at my disposal, to refer to his numerous other labours ; to the services publicly known, and others not publicly known, that he was constantly rendering to the Government, to his unwearied application to the duties in conneqtion with his Professorship, to the extensive correspondence that his reputation entailed upon him from all parts of the world, and to the many other duties which he voluntarily assumed whenever he thought he could render useful aid. It would, however, be a great