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Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793–1912 , pp. 302 - 310
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Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, 238
Abernethy, John, 29, 39, 55, 80, 84, 89, 95, 132, 138, 142, 158, 159, 187, 197, 243, 254, 255, 260
and anatomical dissection, 135, 144–5, 196–7, 203, 210, 211
and compound fracture, 145, 245
and delirium, 137
and medicine, 30–1
and political radicalism, 31
and regret, 82–3
and vivisection, 187
dislike of operations, 31, 76–7
abscess, 29, 237, 251, 255, 268
accidents, 132
during surgery, 37, 38
actor-network theory, 139–40
affect. See emotions: theories of
alcohol, consumption of, 102, 104, 115, 136–7, 219, 226, 228
Aldersgate Medical School, 40, 157
American Civil War, 144
amputation, 1–2, 13, 14, 16, 24, 27, 38, 39, 46, 50, 55–6, 64, 70, 71, 80, 85, 88–90, 125–6, 128, 133–7, 141–2, 145, 158, 173, 176, 223–4, 256, 278, 281
Amsterdam, 253, 275
anaesthesia, 1–3, 6, 11, 17, 23, 68, 111, 127, 143, 192, 193, 220, 235–6, 239, 241, 257, 258, 260, 265, 274, 279, 280, 286
abortive discovery of, 215, 220
anxieties concerning, 227, 231, 243
as sleep, 223, 214, 232
continuities with the past, 230–1, 243–4, 255, 258–9, 277–8
early use of, 52–4, 188, 220, 221, 223
erotic connotations of, 225
experiences under, 223–7
historiography of, 191–2, 214–15, 220, 222
impact on surgeons, 214, 231–5
initial reception of, 230–1
limitations of, 239–40
objections to, 233–4
risks of, 227, 228, 234
standardisation of, 227–9
techniques for the administering of, 229
anatomy, 15, 19–20, 22, 33, 34, 94, 194, 197, 199, 210, 213, 251
and dissection. See dissection
demonstration of, 27–8, 36, 45–6, 195, 210
history of, 25–6
pathological, 6, 30, 67, 76, 135, 211
private schools of, 36–7, 157, 193, 195, 197–8; see also individual schools listed by name
surgical, 26–9, 36, 80, 191, 197–8
transcendental, 10
Anatomy Act, The, 17, 188, 189–92, 203, 205, 212, 213, 273
opposition to, 205, 207–12
anatomy theatres, 44–5
Anderson College, Glasgow, 197
Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett, 267
aneurysm, 49, 109, 133
anger, 13, 17, 32, 105, 150, 163, 164, 166, 167, 169, 171, 176, 177, 180, 184, 190, 211
Anglo-Scottish relations, 20, 24, 27, 55–9, 155, 229
antisepsis, 3, 6, 11, 17, 68, 256–7, 259, 265, 279, 280
and carbolic acid, 240, 246, 269
and responsibility, 255–6
as emotional watershed, 239
as gospel, 271
as myth, 237–9, 274–8, 282
historiography of, 239, 242–3
impact on surgeons, 242
motivation for, 263
opposition to, 247–51
relationship to asepsis, 238, 277
relationship to cleanliness, 241, 246–7
anxiety, 1, 13, 84, 107, 176, 284
as cause of disease, 100–6, 140
of patients, 66, 70, 89, 92, 112, 117–25, 129, 130, 141, 145, 149, 231, 279
of surgeons, 56, 67, 68, 75, 78, 80–1, 86–7, 94, 109, 180–1, 259, 260, 261, 263, 280
apothecaries, 118, 166; see also Society of Apothecaries
Apothecaries Act, The, 156
Arnold, Edwin, 273
Ashwell, Samuel, 217
Association for the Advancement of Medicine by Research, 265
Atkinson, James, 133–4
bacteriology. See germ theory
Baillie, Matthew, 24, 26
Barbers’ Company, 19
Baume, Pierre Henri Joseph, 207
Bell, Benjamin, 32
Bell, Charles, 12, 20, 22, 36, 40, 59, 84, 86, 94, 157, 158, 175, 279, 282, 283
and detachment, 85–6
and masculinity, 88
and pain, 215–16
and vivisection, 187
emotional disposition of, 77–8, 81–2, 87, 260
natural theology of, 159
paintings of, 97
Bell, George, 72
Bell, John, 12, 34, 55, 79, 80, 173, 193
and embodied sensation, 109
and Romantic surgery, 8, 28, 32–3, 39–40, 76, 198, 262
and self-composure, 50
and surgical anatomy, 20, 28, 36, 37, 198
legacy of, 40–1
relations with patients, 91, 93–4
Bentham, Jeremy, 189, 204, 210
and anatomical dissection, 200–1
and emotion, 201, 202
and happiness, 201
dissection of, 201, 205–6
on pain, 191–2, 216
Bildung, 75, 186
biography, 15, 16, 31, 53, 77, 161, 162, 185–8, 237, 249, 262, 263, 268, 277, 281, 282
Birmingham General Hospital, 178
Bishop, John, 211
blood-letting. See therapeutics: blood-letting
Board, Ernest, 52
bodies, 28, 63, 74, 79, 99, 100, 115, 140, 145, 170, 190, 191, 195, 202, 205, 212, 229, 235, 241, 250, 251, 286; see also dead bodies; embodiment
quiescent, 189, 213, 232–3
bones, 37, 144, 207
broken, 125, 129, 137, 138
compound fracture of, 128, 136, 137, 145, 173, 245
excision of, 51, 60, 61, 142
setting of, 82, 158
Brande, William Thomas, 224
Braxton Hicks, John, 253
British Medical Association, 155, 213, 239; see also Provincial Medical and Surgical Association
Brodie, Benjamin, 24, 71, 74, 90, 124, 223
and anatomical dissection, 204
and emotional self-restraint, 86–8
relations with patients, 94
Brown, John, 41–2, 87, 277
Burke, William, 207–8, 211
Burney, Frances, 84, 98, 110, 112
butchery. See surgeons: caricature of
Callaway, Thomas, 146, 158
Cameron, Hector Charles, 277
Cameron, Hector Clare, 255, 277
Camperdown, Battle of, 194
cancer, 119, 140
breast, 16, 41, 65–7, 69, 82, 91, 95–7, 99–105, 108, 111–2, 116–25, 127, 130, 131, 135
causes of, 98–9, 105–6, 118
facial, 60–1, 127–8, 142
historiography of, 97–8, 111
penile, 50
testicular, 101
Cargil, Lionel Vernon, 261
caricature. See surgeons: caricature of
casebooks, 15, 16, 91, 95–106, 107, 111, 115, 124, 127, 128, 130, 133, 136, 219, 226
cataract, 34, 234
Chalmers, Thomas, 235
charity, medical, 132, 134, 154, 176, 177, 218
chemistry, 10, 94, 215, 224, 240, 246, 250
Chesleden, William, 20, 24, 181, 259
Cheyne, William Watson, 237, 251, 252, 262, 271
Chiene, John, 252
children
as objects of sentiment, 9, 51, 68, 106–7, 116–17, 150, 177, 179, 208, 268–70
illness of, as cause of anxiety, 102–3
Clarke, James Fernandez, 161, 162
class, 15, 21, 111, 114, 158, 160, 162, 181, 189–90, 197, 208
Cline, Henry, 91, 93, 158–9, 186–7, 280
clinical medicine, 66, 68, 71, 105, 113–15, 123, 127, 131, 132, 156, 216–17, 252, 265; see also Paris: clinical revolution in
clothing, surgical, 85, 89
Cobbe, Frances Power, 266–8
Cobbett, William, 152, 209, 210
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 10, 139, 168
compassion, 8–13, 28, 40, 51, 55, 57–8, 62–3, 67–8, 76, 88, 91–94, 97, 105–7, 176, 181–2, 242, 256, 262, 263, 269–72, 279, 284, 285
fatigue, 286
Contagious Diseases Acts, The, 266–7
Cooper, Astley Paston, 14, 15, 26, 47, 54, 56, 60, 77, 136, 146, 179, 235, 243, 279–81, 282
and dissection, 186–7, 195–6, 204, 212–13
and professional authority, 157–9
and The Lancet, 161–2, 174
and vivisection, 186
early life of, 185–6
early political radicalism of, 106
gender identity of, 106–7
on irritability, 140–1
on John Abernethy, 31
on operative skill, 33–8
relations with patients, 16, 65–8, 88, 90–2, 95–106, 111–12, 115–31, 137–8
Cooper, Bransby Blake, 47, 106, 158, 185–8, 191, 212
and botched lithotomy operation, 162, 178–81
opposition to anaesthesia, 233–4
correspondence, 1–2, 15–16, 20–21, 55, 64, 67, 78, 94, 95, 102, 110, 111–13, 115–31, 138, 260–2, 102
Coulson, William, 234
Crimean War, 273
cruelty, 16, 23, 58, 71, 83, 154, 177–8, 190, 197, 258–9, 269, 272, 279–83
to animals, 186–7, 265–6
Curling, Thomas Blizard, 233
Dalby, William Bartlett, 253
danger, 22, 28, 37–40, 49, 56, 65–7, 79–80, 83, 92, 100, 107, 133, 140, 149, 215, 219, 222, 239, 245, 254, 264, 273, 284, 286
Darby, Thomas, 247, 249
Davy, Humphry, 10, 12, 215, 220
dead bodies, 25, 37, 202–3, 233–5
attitudes towards, 204–7
bequests of, 212–13
of the poor, 17, 187, 190–1, 203, 207–12
price of, 196
proposals for the acquisition of, 195, 197, 200, 203–4
death, during and after surgery, 1, 22, 52, 68, 79–83, 91, 92, 109, 128, 131, 135, 137, 143, 145–8, 174–9, 183, 190, 198, 202, 227–8, 240, 245, 255, 278, 281
delirium, 137–8, 145, 225–6, 243
depression, 68, 92, 105, 129, 146, 244, 263
despair, 2, 82, 91, 95, 128, 129, 243
despondency, 66, 81, 91, 121, 128–30, 134, 145, 176, 243, 257
detachment, 7–8, 70–1, 83, 85–8, 98, 107, 190, 242, 257, 271–2, 279, 284–7
dexterity. See embodiment: and skill
dislocation of joints, 90, 143
dispassion. See detachment
dissection, 17, 25, 45–6, 70, 79, 114, 135, 187, 232–3
as preparation for surgery, 28, 35–7, 197–8
defence of, 187–8, 197–207
growth of, 195
historiography of, 188–90
opposition to, 194–5, 205, 207–12, 235
Dobson, Richard, 143
Donders, Franciscus, 275
dressers, surgical, 38, 41, 46–9, 80, 137, 156, 174–6, 232, 271
drunkenness. See alcohol, consumption of
Dubois, Antoine, 84
Earle, Henry, 176, 178
Edinburgh, 14, 15, 32, 41, 56–9, 72, 77, 156, 207, 231, 244, 247, 250, 251, 256, 260, 273
surgical education in, 20–1, 27–8, 36, 193–5
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, 58, 255, 256, 264
education, surgical, 42, 47–8, 50, 80, 135, 174, 190, 194, 202, 267, 282, 286
changing forms of, 20–1, 27–8, 43, 156–63, 195
lectures for, 24–5, 33, 38, 40, 80, 82–3, 86–91, 94, 99–100, 124, 132, 137, 140, 145, 161, 162, 258–60
manual, 33–8
Elliotson, John, 23, 62, 220–1
Ellis, Sarah Stickney, 219
embarrassment, 32, 75, 180–1; see also humiliation
embodiment, 16, 139–45, 281
and experience, 5, 8, 13, 29, 63, 68, 79–80, 109, 125–8, 198
and skill, 16, 32–8, 57–8
emotional community, 12, 87, 94
emotional regime, 3, 7, 11–12, 15–17, 22, 33, 42, 67, 87, 107, 188, 190, 192, 193, 196, 199, 231, 233, 235, 241–2, 253, 254, 260, 272, 279, 283, 286
emotions
and introspection, 9, 16, 71–6, 260, 284–6
authenticity of, 8, 9, 23, 40, 63, 68, 76, 165, 183, 193, 199, 267
historiography of, 3–6
ontology of, in surgery, 242–54, 284
restraint of, 42, 85–8, 142, 144, 148, 177, 272
theories of, 11–13
empathy, 12–13
empire, 199, 234–5, 272–4
Enlightenment, The, 9, 63, 70
Erichsen, John Eric, 230–1, 240, 249, 251–2
Essex and Colchester Hospital, 233
ethnicity, 15, 142, 144, 225, 285
failure
operative, 61, 75, 79, 81, 182, 184, 223, 254–5, 272
professional, 37, 74–5, 80–1, 150
family, 66–7, 90, 112, 115, 177
historiography of, 4, 117
relations, 103–4, 116–17, 124–5, 133–5
fear
of patients, 1, 48, 66, 92–3, 103, 105, 109, 112, 117–24, 129–30, 132, 144, 148, 177, 213, 218–19, 228, 231, 243–5, 278, 280
of surgeons, 68–9, 74, 78–81, 84, 95, 105, 109, 181, 280
Fergusson, William, 232
fever, 140, 145, 243, 245, 278
puerperal, 253
Fildes, Luke, 269–70
First World War, 273–4
fortitude, 77, 88–9, 127, 141–4, 146–8, 177, 218, 227, 233
foundling hospitals, 200
France, 84–5, 129, 193
surgery in, 21, 25, 30, 135, 195
Franco-Prussian War, 274
French Revolution, 31, 85, 106, 193, 195, 205
French wars (Revolutionary and Napoleonic), 8, 85–6, 194, 197, 199–200
friendlessness, 203–5, 208–12
Gamgee, Sampson, 249, 251
gender, 15, 16, 51, 66, 69, 87–8, 95–107, 116–17, 131, 141, 143–4, 218–20, 222, 225, 226, 252–3, 261, 285
and surgical skill, 33–4
general practitioners, 14–15, 21, 30, 74–5, 118, 119, 154, 158, 160, 172
germ theory, 11, 17, 237–41, 243, 246–50, 255, 257, 260, 282
Germany, 241, 252, 274
Glasgow, 27, 156, 197, 247, 268
Glasgow Royal Infirmary, 143, 178, 246, 268, 277
Godlee, Rickman John, 249, 251, 262–4, 267, 276
Godwin, William, 202
gratitude, 66, 130–2, 134, 146, 268, 275, 284
grave-robbing, 187, 194–6, 207
Great Windmill Street Anatomy School, 24, 77, 157
Green, Joseph Henry, 47, 51, 166, 168, 174
Gregory, James, 72, 77, 78
grief, 84, 102–5, 108, 117–18, 121, 202, 244, 255, 286
Guthrie, George, 205–6
Guy’s Hospital, London, 26, 47, 48, 90, 95–6, 131, 132, 157–8, 160, 162, 174
lectures at, 217
operations at, 47–9, 56, 88, 126, 137–8, 143, 146, 149, 178–9
haemorrhage, 27, 79–80, 125, 173, 176, 213
Hall, Marshall, 139, 216
Haller, Albrecht von, 100, 140
happiness, 62, 65–6, 131, 202, 232, 263, 280
utilitarian, 200–1, 205, 206, 210, 219
Hare, William, 207–8, 211
Hastings, Charles, 144
head injuries, 133, 136–9
Henley, William Ernest, 256, 261, 270
hernia, 14, 82
heroism, 6, 22, 32, 54, 63, 68, 154, 163, 168–70, 256, 257, 270–1, 273–5, 278, 282, 285
Hoggan, Frances, 267
holism, 241, 248, 264
Home, Everard, 24–6, 37, 71, 158–9, 187, 280, 282
and emotional self-restraint, 87–8
horror, 1–2, 29, 42, 50, 52, 84, 95, 106, 177, 200, 203, 205, 213, 231, 239, 277, 279–82
as a rhetorical device, 172, 181, 183
hospitalism, 240, 243, 247, 249
hospitals, 15, 34, 49, 61, 77, 111, 113–16, 165, 191, 200, 203, 240, 245, 263, 278; see also individual hospitals listed by name
disciplinary cultures of, 16, 105, 132–8
provincial, 43, 156, 178
teaching, 14, 17, 23, 37–8, 43, 46, 67, 80–1, 89, 150, 154, 156–63, 172–83, 195
Hume, David, 69–70
humiliation, 75, 76; see also embarrassment
humour, 83, 106, 283
during surgery, 50–1, 177, 223
Hunt, Henry, 170, 208, 209, 210
Hunter, John, 5, 8, 20, 24–7, 29, 76–7, 100, 145, 249, 251, 276, 279, 280
Hunter, William, 24–5, 27, 70, 157
Hunterian Oration, 26, 31, 38, 195
Hunterian Society, 233
hysteria, 100, 144, 218–19, 222, 253
and anaesthesia, 226
imagination, acts of, 13, 42, 66, 68–70, 73–4, 91–5, 109–10, 117, 130, 151, 168–9, 180, 196–200, 202, 203, 205, 207, 209–10, 216, 278
incompetence, 32, 126, 154, 160, 172
exposure of, 17, 149–51, 153, 163, 172–84
indifference, 6, 11, 15, 29, 51, 57–8, 70, 94, 245, 254, 259, 264
indignation, 167, 176–8, 211, 267
infection, post-operative, 68, 145, 240–1, 245–51, 254–7, 261–3
inflammation, 29, 102, 109, 123, 140, 174–5, 259, 278
insensibility
emotional, 15, 70, 86, 87; see also indifference
of consciousness, 137, 139, 220, 223–4, 226, 227, 233
instruments, surgical, 37, 40, 49, 57, 58, 71, 79, 86, 126, 149–50, 179, 230, 232, 234, 255
as objects of fear, 1, 69, 89–90, 231
International Congress of Medical Science, 253, 274, 275
intersubjectivity, 7, 10, 13, 16, 68–9, 88, 93–4, 98–9, 104, 108, 109, 115, 150, 181, 188, 192, 193, 198, 214–16, 220, 222–3, 233–6, 242, 257, 262, 272, 284–6
Ireland, 103, 122, 129, 154–6, 195, 247
irritability, 16, 94, 101, 103, 124, 134, 139–45
Jeffreys, Henry, 175, 183
Joberns, John, 175
joy, 13, 65–6, 130–1, 244, 260–1, 280
Keith, William, 239
Key, Charles Aston, 146, 158, 217
King’s College Hospital, 261–2, 265
King’s College London, 250–1, 260, 263
Knox, Robert, 21
Koch, Robert, 274
Lambert, James, 162, 179–80
Lancet, The, 16–17, 110
ambivalences of, 182–3
and anaesthesia, 234–5
and anatomical dissection, 210–12
and Hoo Loo’s operation, 146–8
and professional identity, 151
and Robert Liston, 55–62
criticism of, 180–2
hospital case reports, use of, 149–51, 163, 172–7
lectures, pirating of, 162–3
literary style of, 55, 151–4, 163–9, 171–2, 177–80
metrocentrism of, 154–5
readership of, 162
Larrey, Dominique Jean, 84, 98
Lascelles, Henry, 2nd Earl of Harewood, 209
laughter. See humour: during surgery
Lawrence, William, 49–51, 62, 106, 157, 177, 232
Laycock, Thomas, 139, 218, 221
lectures. See education: surgical, lectures for
Leeson, John Rudd, 239, 245, 247, 250, 251, 256, 261–3, 267, 268, 271–2, 276
Leiden University, 27, 44
letters. See correspondence
Lister, Joseph, 3, 11, 17, 254, 273, 275–6
and cleanliness, 246–7
and germ theory, 240–1, 245–6, 250–2, 257
and religion, 258, 261
and the women’s movement, 267
and vivisection, 265–6
as a professional ideal, 271–2, 284
emotional identity of, 242, 257–63, 271
hagiography of, 52, 237–9, 242, 256, 261–4, 268–9, 271, 276–8, 282
relations with patients, 256, 261–2
Liston, Robert, 16, 20–1, 29, 51, 54–6, 58–9, 63–4, 144, 158, 223, 235, 258, 259
and mesmerism, 54, 220–1
and The Lancet. See Lancet, The: and Robert Liston
mythology of, 52–4, 281–2
operative skill of, 23, 33, 35, 59–62
physicality of, 56–8, 62–3
radicalism of, 59
lithotomy, 14, 38, 47, 50, 83, 131, 142, 149–50, 158, 162, 175–81, 184, 198, 234
lithotrity, 234
Lizars, John, 193–7, 199, 202
Lloyd, Eusebius, 49
London, 14, 15, 17, 27, 36, 43, 56, 58–9, 62, 77, 106, 123, 124, 129, 146, 148, 150, 154–63, 172–83, 187, 195–6, 210, 249, 250, 281
London Hospital, 142, 158, 223, 227, 278
London Medical Gazette, The, 62, 166, 169, 180–1, 204–5, 209, 222
London University. See University College London
Lucas, William, junior, 126
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 208
Mackenzie, William, 197–201
Macleod, Roderick, 166, 169, 180–2
Manchester Infirmary, 111, 132, 138
marriage, 101, 125, 213
and its discontents, 104
Marsh, Henry, 285
masculinity, 101, 143–4, 218–20
and reform, 167, 170–1
and surgical identity, 33, 63, 87–8, 106–7
materialism, 159, 205, 241, 267
medicine, 100, 155, 264–70, 284
historiography of, 4–6, 21, 34–5, 97–8, 106–7, 132, 151–2, 241, 280
relations with surgery, 20–1, 30–1, 78
Medico-Chirurgical Review, 61, 64, 164–6, 169, 174, 182
melodrama, 17, 66, 200, 211
ambivalences of, 169, 182–4
and surgical reform, 153–4, 170–2, 177–80
moral polarities of, 166–7, 171
scholarship on, 153
memoirs, 15, 239, 285
memory, 54, 173, 185–86, 199, 263, 267, 274
of surgery, 1–2, 70, 126–7, 137, 224, 228
popular, 2–3, 276–83, 286
menstruation, 100–1
mental health, 73–4, 137–8, 144, 225–6, 233
mesmerism, 23, 54, 143, 220–9
Middlesex Hospital, 47, 157–8, 175–6, 225
military surgery. See war
Mill, James, 59, 201
Mill, John Stuart, 201
Miller, James, 55, 64, 220, 231–5
mind-body relations, 5, 68, 91, 100–5, 113, 120–1, 128–9, 140–1, 144, 221, 222, 243–5, 247–8, 252–4
Minto House Hospital, 41
misery, 11, 68, 76, 93, 118, 260, 274, 278, 280
modernity, 105, 110, 271
scientific, 3, 11, 12, 17, 52, 192–3, 231, 235, 239, 241, 256, 257, 270, 272, 274, 276–87
Monro, Alexander, primus, 27, 45
Monro, Alexander, secundus, 27–8
Monro, Alexander, tertius, 27
moral philosophy, 70, 100, 189, 192, 217
motherhood, 65–6, 87–8, 97, 116–17, 133–5, 200, 208, 268–70, 278
and breast cancer, 101–5, 107
Moynihan, Berkeley, 278–80
murder
as a rhetorical device, 80, 175, 183, 197, 202
for dissection, 208, 211
Murder Act, The, 28, 195
National Health Service, 284
nepotism in surgery, 17, 61, 159, 161, 167, 168, 172, 179
nervous system, 92, 104, 115–16, 124, 125, 135, 140–5, 217, 218–19, 222, 232, 234, 243, 254
autonomic, 139, 140
shock to, 221, 244–5
Newman, William, 253
Newton, Isaac, 26, 201
Nightingale, Florence, 247
nitrous oxide, 12, 215, 220
Norris, William, 27
North London Hospital. See University College Hospital
Northern Dispensary, London, 226
nostalgia, 129
Nunn, Roger Sturley, 233
Nunneley, Thomas, 248, 249, 252, 255
nursing, 138, 145, 146, 148, 177, 247, 263–4
objectivity, 4, 22, 24, 70, 113, 222, 249, 272
Obstetrical Society of London, 253
Ogston, Alexander, 237–40, 274
operating theatre, 23, 41–2, 55, 57, 61, 75, 127, 137, 140, 142, 149, 176, 192, 225, 231, 254, 263, 283
and theatricality, 46, 49, 154
arrangement of, 90, 177
cultures of, 23, 51, 213–14, 228, 232–3
design of, 43–6
operations, surgical, 15, 69–70, 242
anxiety before and during, 1–2, 76–81, 90–3, 109, 121–2, 124, 181, 231, 240, 243–5, 258–9, 261, 280
calmness during, 38–9, 81, 86–8, 231–2
descriptions of, 1–2, 41–2, 48–51, 79, 80, 83–5, 88–9, 110, 125–7, 141–3, 146–50, 176–9, 223–7, 277
dexterity in, 33–8, 59–64
flamboyance in, 23, 39–41, 58, 61, 213–14
gesture during, 49–50
styles of, 22, 29–30, 33, 51–4, 232–4
Osler, William, 271–2
Oswald, Henry Robert, 71–6, 135, 260
ovariotomy, 194, 235, 240, 243–4
pain, 2–3, 38, 69–70, 92, 128, 143, 228, 231, 232, 243, 266
accounts of, 112, 125–9, 227
as an evil, 191, 216–18
historiography of, 6, 126, 191
moral qualities of, 215–20, 233
relief of, 11, 52, 94, 215, 220, 221, 260, 278
Paré, Ambroise, 26, 275–6
Paris, 106, 129
clinical revolution in, 21, 30, 67, 135, 216–17; see also clinical medicine
Pasteur, Louis, 240, 246, 250, 274
patients
accounts of, 1–2, 16, 84, 116–31, 224–6
agency of, 16, 69, 92, 102, 109–45
consent of, 132, 134, 135–8
disappearance of, 113–14, 241
idiosyncrasy of, 140–5, 222–3, 227, 229, 241, 244–5, 247–51, 253–5, 265, 285
neglect of, 172–5
sufferings of, 40, 42, 48, 50–1, 61–2, 69, 70, 75, 76, 94, 107, 125–8, 138, 141–3, 146–151, 172–3, 176–7, 179, 182, 190, 198, 213, 215, 234, 258–60, 277–9
voice of, 104, 110–13, 146–8, 226–9, 232
paupers, 203, 212
performance, surgical, 22–3, 33–51, 55, 56, 64, 67, 76, 89, 108, 150, 181, 269, 272
phenomenology, 13, 67, 110, 242
physicians, 20–1, 24–5, 27, 31, 74, 78, 85, 160, 198, 221, 264–5; see also Royal College of Physicians of London (England)
physiology, 13, 20, 100, 139, 186, 187, 192, 216, 218–19, 245, 248, 251, 265–6
pity, 17, 42, 62, 63, 66–70, 75, 85–7, 94, 98, 105, 108, 116, 144, 146, 150, 176, 177, 180–4, 188–9, 190, 215, 258, 284
Pollard, Stephen, 178–82
poor, 17, 114–17, 132–9, 179, 187–91, 203–12, 269
poor laws, 112, 132, 158, 212
Pott, Percival, 20, 24
pregnancy, 97, 101, 102, 253
prison, 132, 160, 200
private practice, 16, 43, 66, 90, 107, 115, 131, 132, 135, 136, 138, 240, 259
provincial
hospitals. See hospitals: provincial
identity, 155–6
medicine and surgery, 14–15, 116, 154–5
Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, 144, 155; see also British Medical Association
pupils, surgical. See students
race, 15, 144, 245
reform
political, 151–3, 162, 165, 170, 171, 202, 209, 210, 211
surgical, 24, 59, 127, 150–1, 153–5, 158–84, 188, 190, 196, 204–5, 210
regret, 13, 68, 81–3, 108, 120, 147
Reid, John, 247–9
religion, 42, 45–6, 111, 124, 130–1, 164, 224–5, 237–8, 256, 258, 261, 271
resistance, of patients, 115, 132–8
unconscious, 16, 115, 138–45
risk. See danger
Robinson, George Richard, 208
Rogerson, George, 206–7
Romanticism, 8–9, 200
and literature, 164–6
and political radicalism, 152–3, 170–2
and science, 9–10
and sensibility, 42, 51, 58, 62–3, 67–8, 70, 75–6, 106–7, 117, 183, 186, 193
and surgery, 8, 10–11, 28–9, 39–40, 67, 85–6, 215–16, 254–5, 258–9
and the sublime, 97, 146
and the unconscious, 139
Rowlandson, Thomas, 71
Royal College of Physicians, London, 156, 160, 221
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 15, 19, 28, 283
Royal College of Surgeons of London (England), 15, 19, 20, 26, 95, 156, 158, 167, 168, 185, 280, 283
Council of, 158
Court of Examiners of, 158–9
Royal Institution, London, 244
Royal Sea-Bathing Hospital, Margate, 256
sailors, 133–4, 209–10
Saleeby, Caleb Williams, 276–8
Savory, William, 244, 248–50, 252
Select Committee on Anatomy, 195, 204, 211
sepsis. See infection, post-operative
sexually-transmitted disease, 124, 225, 266
Shaw, George Bernard, 268
Shaw, John, 175–6, 184
showmanship. See operations, surgical: flamboyance in
Simpson, James Young, 1–2, 223, 229, 240, 277
Skey, Frederic Carpenter, 34, 38–40, 91, 93, 120, 124–5
Smith, Adam, 69–70, 84, 86, 100, 127
Smith, Thomas Southwood, 204, 209, 213
Snow, John, 214, 226, 227–9, 234
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 187
Society of Apothecaries, London, 158, 165–6
South African War, 273
South, John Flint, 14, 46, 106
Southey, Robert, 164–6
Sprigge, Samuel Squire, 162–6, 171
Squire, William, 54
St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, 34, 138, 157, 158, 244, 256
lectures at, 29, 80, 135, 197
operations at, 48, 49, 50, 176–8
St George’s Hospital, London, 51, 158
lectures at, 24
neglect of patients at, 174–5, 177–8, 183
operations at, 48, 223
St Thomas’ Hospital, London, 14, 44, 56, 136, 157–8, 160, 166, 187, 219, 245, 283
lectures at, 33, 47, 80, 273
neglect of patients at, 173–5
operations at, 46–8, 51, 149
rebuilding of, 247
statistics, in surgery, 235, 240, 250, 272
Stewart, John, 263–4
Stockport Infirmary, 226
Struthers, John, 27–8, 40
students, 15, 20–1, 23, 26, 28, 31, 33, 38, 40, 55, 71, 76, 80, 82–3, 89, 90, 92, 95–7, 99, 123, 124, 132, 135, 137, 138, 140, 144–5, 150, 174, 179, 180, 190, 193, 217, 230, 232, 237, 239, 244, 254, 255, 262, 263, 272, 277, 281
behaviour of, 41–2, 46–51, 162–3, 174–7, 186–7, 196, 274
education of, 24–5, 35–8, 43, 87, 156–8, 195, 198, 199, 258–60, 273
rights of, 47, 59, 160–2, 172
Suakin Expedition, 273
surgeon-apothecaries. See general practitioners
surgeons
as divine, 17, 242, 257, 270–2, 284
caricature of, 10–11, 16, 61, 64, 71, 76, 86, 87, 178, 276, 279, 282–3, 286
definition of, 13–15
practical, 251–2
pure, 14, 30, 74, 157–9, 163, 165
status of, 19–22, 24–5, 30–1, 63, 105, 157–9, 174, 213
surgery
heroic, 22, 29–30
historiography of, 6–8, 21–3, 32, 49–50, 98, 110–12, 144, 156–7, 159, 163, 193, 241, 245
limitations of, 68, 76–9, 145, 240, 243, 255
mythology of, 6, 10–11, 19, 24–7, 52–4, 111, 213–14, 238–40, 262–4, 268–9, 274–83, 286
responsibility in, 254–6
Romantic. See Romanticism: and surgery
scientific, 8, 15, 19–20, 24–30, 76, 251
techno-scientific, 11, 17, 193, 214, 229, 233, 251, 253, 257, 268–70, 274
Syme, James, 1, 20, 41–2, 56, 58–9, 230, 258
sympathy, 5, 6, 8, 10, 13, 17, 22, 63, 67–71, 77, 85–7, 91, 93–4, 105–8, 115, 117, 144, 146, 150–1, 173, 176, 177, 180–2, 184, 185, 188–90, 193, 198, 205, 213–16, 236, 255, 261, 263–4, 279, 282, 284
physiology of, 99–101, 140
tears, 41–2, 48, 51, 68, 84, 85, 87, 106, 129, 146–8, 165, 176–7, 183, 185, 258
therapeutics, 6, 13, 122–3, 127, 128
blood-letting, 14, 80, 133, 158, 175, 219, 220
caustics, 67, 118, 121, 124, 127–8
Thomson, St Clair, 261, 262, 271, 276, 278
Townend, Joseph, 111, 114, 132, 134, 138
Travers, Benjamin, 101, 158, 161, 166, 173–4, 231, 254
Travers, Benjamin, junior, 219
trephination, 24, 29, 90, 158
Treves, Frederick, 213–14, 274, 278, 279
tumours
benign, 40, 65–6, 130
cancerous. See cancer
excision of, 14, 40, 43, 48, 51, 60–1, 79, 82, 84, 107, 117, 121, 122, 124, 127, 136, 137, 142, 146, 176–7, 220, 235, 242
Tyrrell, Frederick, 157, 158, 166, 174
University College Hospital, London, 23, 51, 52, 58, 62, 144, 158, 262
University College London, 58–9, 62, 77, 220, 230, 249, 258
University of Edinburgh, 1, 27, 58–9, 72, 258–9
University of Glasgow, 240, 259
utilitarianism, 3, 17, 46, 189–2, 193, 200–6, 208–12, 216–8, 233, 235
vivisection, 5, 186, 187, 192–3, 233, 242, 265–8, 282
Wakley, Thomas, 16–17, 55–6, 58, 59, 61–2, 150, 152–5, 159–62, 235
and anatomical dissection, 210–12
and mesmerism, 220, 222
and radical scrutiny, 172–83
literary style of, 163–9, 171–2
masculine identity of, 170–1
public persona of, 169–70
surgical education of, 56, 160–1
Walton, Henry Haynes, 234
war, 8, 63, 85–6, 88, 144, 193–4, 197, 199–200, 205, 212, 272–4; see also individal wars listed by name
Warburton, Henry, 189, 195, 204, 212
Wardrop, James, 40–1, 68, 89, 92, 220
Warneford Hospital, Oxford, 225
Waterloo, Battle of, 85, 97, 199–200, 205
Webb Street School of Anatomy and Medicine, 157
Wellcome, Henry, 52
Westaby, Stephen, 285
Westminster Hospital, 39, 50, 142, 158, 226
Whelpdale, Andrew, 20–1, 23, 30, 55
widowhood, 103–4, 116–17, 200, 208
Williams, Thomas, 211
Wilson, George, 1–3, 6, 110, 126–7
Wintle, Frederick Thomas, 225
Wolseley, Garnet, Sir, 273
women’s movement, 266–7
workhouse, 106, 132, 191, 196, 200, 203
wounds, 29, 83, 126, 128, 137, 140, 219, 232, 243
care of, 27, 133, 136, 158, 175, 240–1, 245–50, 251, 255–7, 259
surgical, 29, 80, 81, 109
war, 85, 97, 194, 275
Yeo, Isaac Burney, 265
York County Hospital, 133–4

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