William Cullen and the eighteenth century medical world : a bicentenary exhibition and symposium arranged by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1990 /

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Imprint:Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1993.
Description:xiii, 256 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1554234
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Other authors / contributors:Doig, A. (Andrew)
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
ISBN:0748603026 : £25.00
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • A Chronology of the Life of William Cullen 1710-1790
  • The Exhibition
  • The Cullen Bicentenary Exhibition
  • The Symposium
  • 1. William Cullen in eighteenth century medicine
  • References
  • 2. William Cullen and the practice of chemistry
  • Notes and references
  • 3. Philosophy and method in Cullen's medical teaching
  • Acknowledgements
  • 4. Cullen as clinician: Organisation and strategies of an eighteenth century medical practice
  • 5. Cullen and the nervous system
  • 6. General practice in Hamilton Baillie Cullen -- country doctor extraordinaire
  • Further Reading
  • 7. William Cullen and dietetics
  • 8. Medical men, politicians and the medical schools at Glasgow and Edinburgh 1685-1803
  • Notes and references
  • 9. William Cullen's Synopsis Nosologiae Methodicae
  • Notes and references
  • 10. Cullen's influence on American medicine
  • Notes and references
  • 11. The first 40
  • Index