Volume 2

The Harveian oration on the influence of Harvey's work in the development of the doctrine of infection and immunity : delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London, on October 18th, 1913 / by J. Mitchell Bruce.

  • John Mitchell Bruce
Date:
1913
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Credit: The Harveian oration on the influence of Harvey's work in the development of the doctrine of infection and immunity : delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London, on October 18th, 1913 / by J. Mitchell Bruce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Observations to the same effect were being made in the civil populations of London and other cities. This was the period of Dr. John Hunter, who in a paper to the College identifies the typhus of the West-end of London with the jail and hospital fever of his military experience, and gives a graphic description of the poverty and consequent insanitation of the people; of Samuel Johnson’s Dr. Robert Levett, u Of every friendless name the friend,” who laboured among the poor behind Fleet Street; of Lettsom in the City, who carried his patients out into the cold fresh air, and wondered at the long neglect of the method ; of Dr. John Fothergill, who recommends “free air’’ for the putrid sore throat, first recognised and described by him in this country; and of Willan, who as physician to the public dispensary attended the poor of the district between the Strand and Holborn and of the City, and traced the invasion and complete depopulation of some parts of it by fever to life in overcrowded and foul habitations. But we must be fair in our record. Another influence than medical science was at work in England in the middle of the eighteenth century—• a growing influence of common humanity in social politics. It is true that it was as administrators, in their different offices and spheres of public activity, that Pringle on the battlefield, Gilbert Blane afloat and ashore, Lind at Haslar, Captain Cook in com-
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