Address of Sir Andrew Clark ... President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, at the annual meeting, March 1st, 1893.

  • Clark, Andrew, 1826-1893.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Address of Sir Andrew Clark ... President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, at the annual meeting, March 1st, 1893. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cultured and eloquent biograpber of Dr. Walshe in the pages of the ‘ Lancet ’ has ascribed the remarkable seclu- sion to which I and many others have adverted. He died on the 14th December, 1892, in the eighty-first year of his age. Sir William Bowman was born at Nantwich in 1816, and received his early education at Haslewood School, Birmingham. He began his medical studies at the Bir- mingham General Hospital as an apprentice to Mr. Hodgson. In 1837 he came to London and entered the Medical Department of King’s College, where two years later he was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy. Sub- sequently he became curator of the museum and pro- sector ; and still later he held the office of Professor of Physiology and of General and Morbid Anatomy. In 1846 he was appointed an Assistant Surgeon to the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, and five years later he became full surgeon to that institution. In 1855 he was elected a Fellow of King’s College, and in 1877 he became a member of its Council. On the foundation of the Ophthalmological Society in 1880 Bowman was elected President, and in 1881 he was President of the Ophthal- mological Section of the seventh International Medical Congress. In 1884 he was created a baronet. He was also elected to the membership of numerous medical and scientific societies, both in this country and abroad, and honorary degrees were conferred upon him by the Uni- versities of Cambridge, Dublin, and Edinburgh. Further- more he was a prominent Fellow of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, and did good service as a member of the Council and as Vice-President. Sir William Bowman was the Father of General Anatomy in England, and the brilliant results of his investigations into the structure of the eye, of the kidney, and of the striped muscles were of themselves sufficient to establish a reputation of the highest order. But Bowman had other and equal claims to distinction, for his practical gifts were as great and as fruitful as his scientific gifts.