william heberden younger (2 risultati)

pp. (ii), ii, 578, (i) Corrections, (i) blank. In presentation bible-black full morocco, decorated in blind on boards and spine, gilt doublures, all edges gilt, the spine rather heavily rubbed at the ends and edges and a touch worn at the head, the boards a little rubbed at the edges, internally very nice, with an obituary notice regarding the author from the London Medical Gazette pasted to the inside of each board, presentation inscription from GERRARD THOS. ANDREWES - 'To Dr. Bright as a small mark of gratitude from.', Jany. 1848. *A scarce text - COPAC records Oxford - TCD and the British Library only. WILLIAM HEBERDEN the Younger. [1767-1845], took his medical degrees in Oxford, thence to St. George's London where he was elected physician in 1793, resigning this office in 1803. He had been appointed physician-in-ordinary to the queen in 1806, and to George III in 1809. During George's final illness he was one of the physicians most frequently in attendance. He was censor and elect at the College of Physicians, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and delivered the Harveian Oration in 1809. His wife died in 1812, when he retired from his London practice and devoted his time to the care and education of his children. However, he retained his royal duties and in 1826 returned to London and to his practice, in part to be with his son who had started his own medical education at St. George's. In 1829 the boy died from dissection room fever, and shortly afterwards, another son died. The tragic events of his later life culminated in the death of his eldest daughter in 1833; he again retired from London practice and devoted the remainder of his life to the study and authorship of theological subjects. He was regarded as an accomplished physician and scholar, though his writings were not numerous. He published his father's 'Commentarii de Morborum Historia et Curatione', in 1802, having the distinction, according to Rolleston, of being the last important medical treatise to be written in Latin. In the same year, he published an English translation, though his name does not appear on the title. His own major medical publication was 'Morborum Puerilium Epitome', 1804, though Garrison-Morton [#6327] comment - 'It is probable that the above work was compiled from notes left by Heberden senior'. GERRARD ANDREWES [1750-1825], born at Leicester, educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge. He took various clerical appointments, until in 1791, he became preacher at the Magdalen and in 1799, at the Foundling Hospital. In 1809 he accepted Spencer Perceval's invitation to become Dean of Canterbury. His only son married one of the daughters of William Heberden the Younger. RICHARD BRIGHT [1789-1858], regarded as 'the father of nephrology'. Both he and Andrewes, above, have a mural monument in St.James's Piccadilly, Presumably, he must have attended Andrewes or a member of his family, in his medical capacity; according to Joseph Payne in DNB, he was the leading consulting physician in London.

The present item dates from the final period of the king's mental instability, 1810-1820. Heberden the son of the 'father of rheumatology' William Heberden the elder (1710-1801) had been appointed Physician-Extraordinary to the queen in 1795, and by 1809 was Physician-in-Ordinary to both queen and king. His entry in the Oxford DNB describes how, when 'the symptoms of the king's mental instability recurred early in 1804 the royal physicians were ordered by the queen's council to leave the daily management to a specialist mad-doctor with experience in treating mental disorders [ ] The regime was repressive and coercive, but despite this harsh treatment the king's recovery in 1804 was complete by the end of the year. For the next five years Heberden pursued his London practice, but in 1810 the king's illness reappeared and the repressive regime was renewed a form of treatment that Heberden considered to be futile and inhumane. [ ] Heberden's protests were brushed aside and he and the other physicians found themselves virtually excluded from the sickroom. He was able to see his patient from time to time, but always in the presence of the Willises or one of their associates.' The reference in the present letter to 'Dr Robt Willis, Dr Monro, & Dr Simmons', is to the three 'mad-doctors' Robert Darling Willis (1760-1821); Thomas Monro (1759-1833) of Bethlem Hospital; and Samuel Foart Simmons (1750-1813). The 'Dr Halloran' of the letter is William Saunders Hallaran [sic] (c.1765-1825) of Cork, specialist in the treatment of insanity, for whom see B. D. Kelly, 'Dr William Saunders Hallaran and psychiatric practice in nineteenth-century Ireland' (Irish Journal of Medical Science, April 2008). Hallaran's 'proposal' may have been published in his influential work 'Enquiry into the Causes producing the Extraordinary Addition to the Number of Insane, together with Observations on the Cure of Insanity' (1810). For more information see Andrews and Scull, 'Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England' (2001). The letter is 2pp, 12mo. Bifolium on watermarked laid paper. In good condition, lightly aged. Eighteen lines of text, neatly written, with light tick through the lower lines of the first page. The recipient is not named. The letter reads: 'My dear Sir, | My own experience in cases of deranged intellect has been so limited, that it is not surprizing if I am unacquainted with the virtues of the remedy proposed. So far I may say; that in the present instance it has not been tried, and moreover that its general tendency is of a kind not altogether unsuitable. On the other hand I should administer arsenic to a King with some hesitation. When I return to Windsor on Friday I will lay Dr Halloran's proposal before Dr Robt Willis, Dr Monro, & Dr Simmons, to whose judgment I should naturally defer in such a matter. | I am, My Dr Sr | Yours very truly | W. Heberden'. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.