Sir George Dancer Thane.

Date:
[1930]
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Credit: Sir George Dancer Thane. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and German societies, and foreign corresponding member of the Anthropological Society of Paris. The environment into which Thane was thrust as a youthful demonstrator and professor from 1870 to 1877 was a remarkable one from the point of view of the development of British medicine and of British physiology in particular. The quarrels of the anatomists and surgeons among themselves on questions of division of labour, no less than the antagonism between the anatomists and the College Council, had threatened to wreck the institution soon after its foundation in 1827. In 1837 William Sharpey was appointed professor of anatomy and physiology, at a time when Richard Quain held the chair of practical anatomy and served as surgeon