A biographical cyclopedia of medical history / edited by Charles Wells Moulton.

Date:
1905
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    was admitted a member of the society Naturcc Curiosorum, under the name of Dryander. He died February 4. AMUSSAT, JEAN ZULEMA (1796-1856). A French sur- geon ; entered the army, was assistant surgeon under Esqui- rol in the Saltpetriere Hospital, and prosector at the Paris Faculty of Medicine. He improved, and invented many surgical instruments, and was the first to show the import- ance of torsion of arteries in hemorrhage. He wrote on the nervous system, lithotomy, etc. An operation for opening the large intestine at a point where it is not covered with peritoneum was perfected and first practised by Amussat. It is still performed and it bears his name. Among his publications are researches regarding the nervous system (1825) and a memoir on the torsion of arteries (1829), the latter winning a prize from the Institute. ANAXILAUS, of Larissa. A physician and Pythagorean philosopher, banished from Rome by Augustus, B. C. 28, m the charge of practising the magic art. This accusation appears to have originated in his superior skill in natural philosophy, by which he produced effects that the ignorant attributed to magic. (Euseb., Citron, ad Olymp. clxxxviii; St. Iren, i, 13; Plin. xix, 4, xxv, 95, xxviii, 49, xxxii, 52, XXXV, 50.) ANDERSON, ROBERT (1750-1830). Editor of the British Poets; for the last forty years of his life lived in Edinburgh. ANDRAL, GABRIEL (1797-1876). A distinguished French physician and pathologist; born in Paris. In 1827 he was called to the chair of hygiene, in 1830 to that of pathology, in the University of Paris. Andral may be said to have been the first to apply an analytical and inductiv'e method of pathology. His Medical Clinic (1824) established his reputation, and his Summary of Pathological Anatomy (1829) was equally successful. Other works of importance are his Essay on Pathological Hatmatology (1848); Course in Pathology—Interne; and Investigations into the Modifi- cation of the Relative Proportions of Hcematic (Blood) Principles. ANDREWS, THOMAS (1813-85). An Irish chemist and physicist; born at Belfast. He studied medicine and the physical sciences at Glasgow, Paris, Edinburgh, and Dublin. After practising medicine for several years in his native city, he became, in 1845, professor of chemistry at Queen’s College, which position he resigned in 1879. Andrews car- ried out a number of important researches on the heat de- veloped during various chemical transformations, and on the nature of ozone. His most important contribution to