Memoirs of life and work / by Charles J.B. Williams.

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1884
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    PHY tion in accepting it, 153; complaints iijjiuiist the College, 154 ; association of licentiates and recusants, 155 ; Author intimates intention of attempting re- form, 155 ; Author's Gulslonian Lec- tures at, 158 e< seq. ; reform in, 1G2- 177 ; original charter, 1C3 ; Author's motion for reform, IGij; Author's warn- ing to, ICi; censorsliip of, V24 ; cen- sor's ottice of admonition, 225; senior censorship and Ilarveian oration re- fused ; presidency not sought for, 315; attempted changes in, 410 ; continued restrictions and exclusions, 402 ; num- hers of jM.D.'s not belonging to the College, 403 ; reasons why, 404 ; Sir G. Burrows more liberal; outline of constitution and history of the College, 405-7 ; charge of levelling downwards rebutted ; although imsuccessful in re- moving restrictions, yet elections to fellowship increased, 407 Physiology, lectiires, &c., 18, 27 ; chemi- cal, 20-25 ; experimental, 35 Pictorial thermometer of Mr. Campbell of Islay, 481 Picltess, George, 211 Piorry, Prof., author of ' Percussion Me'diate,' 48 Pitman, Sir Alfred Henry, M.D., Kegis- ti-ar of the Royal College of Physicians, 412 Pleura, perforation of, 61 Plj'mouth, landed at, 62 Pneumnnia, Author's article in ' Cycl. Pract. Med.,' postponed for Vol. IT. Pneumnthnra.v, 59 ; not always fatal, 61 Pollock, Mr. George, 384 Polytechnic, sons at, 259 Porto Santo, Madeira, 58 Portraits of Members of the Institute, 37 ; Professors at the Sorbonne, 44 ; Professor G. Andral, 42; Professor R. T. H. Laennec, 46 Pouillet, C. J. M., Professor of Physique at the Sorbonne, 43 ; portrait, 44 Poultry language and intercourse, 7-9 Powell, Dr. Lewis, London, 17 — and Leal.and, microscope, 157 Practice in dispensaries, &c., 91 — private, reports of, 147, 150, 211, 213, 224, 241, 246-7 ; full engagement in, 265 Prague, 40 Prance, Chas. R., 211 Preece, Mr., on electricity of volcanic dust, 484 President, Author elected President of Harveian and Westminster Medical Societies, 120 ; of Pathological Society, 216; of the New Sydenham Societj-, 275 ; of the Royal Medical and Chirur- gical Societv, 4l(i Preservation of liealth, 203 Preston, Wm. John, 189 Prevention of disease, 203, 303 QTTA Preventive Medicine, successes of, 303-309 Priestley, Dr. Josepli, 3 Primary elements of disease, 202 Prince Consort, H.R.H., the. <See Albert, Prince — Leopold, afterwards King of the Belgians, Sir J. Clark first introduced to him in apartments of Mrs. Willinms in Rome, 56, 142 Principles of Medicine, 140 ; work on, 150 et seq., 200 ; first edition, 1843 ; second,1818; third, 185C; recommended by otiier lecturers ; favourable opinions in this and other countries ; contents and plan of, 202 et seq. ; principles of treatment, 204; letters and critiques on, 208 ; translation into Spanish, Ame- rican reprints, &c., 209 ; unprofessional readers, 209; great assistance from Geo. Gulliver, F.R.S., 210 ; profits, 213; assistance from Dr. R. J. Mann, in third edition, 266 Pringle, Sir John, 304 Pritchard, Dr. J. C, author of 'Natural History of Man,' 113 Professional responsibilities, 53 Professors in Edinburgh, 12, 17-19; Paris, 40-48; U.C.L., 144 Prognosis, 203 Progressive growth in divine grace and knowledge, 502 — revelation of Christ in Old and New Testaments, 496-8 Prophylaxis and hygienics, 201, 203 Protestantism, positive and negative, 500, 501 Protestant schools at Cannes, 471 Prout, Dr., 197, 420-1 Proximate elements of disease, 202 Publication of first worlc, 68 Public speaking, difficulties, 15, 16 — services of medical men, 429-30 Pulraonaiy consumption, a chief object of Author's attention, 348 ; large experi- ence in, 349; publishes a work on it in conjunction with his son. Dr. C. Theodore Williams, 350 ; contents and authorsliip of the chapters, 388-9 ; opinions of the press, 389-90 ; extracts, and comparison with recent researches, 391-3 ; possibility of low organisms (sucli as modern bacilli) being con- cerned, admitted, 394 ; summary view of treatment, 394-5 ; book now out of print; second edition in preparation, 389; duration of life in pulmonary consumption increased from two to eight years and upwards, 395 Q QuAiN, Dr. R., In's name announced for work on the Chest, in conjunction with Author, 87, 90, 213, 223, 240, 267, 377 ;