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See also:BRODIE, See also:SIR See also:BENJAMIN See also:COLLINS , 1st See also:Bart. (1783–1862), See also:English physiologist and surgeon, was See also:born in 1783 at See also:Winter-slow, See also:Wiltshire. He received his See also:early See also:education from his See also:father; then choosing See also:medicine as his profession he went to See also:London in 18o1, and attended the lectures of See also:John See also:Abernethy. Two years later he became a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of Sir Everard See also:Home at St See also:George's See also:hospital, and in 18o8 was appointed assistant surgeon at that institution, on the See also:staff of which he served for over See also:thirty years. In 18so he was elected a See also:fellow of the Royal Society, to which in the next four or five years he contributed several papers describing See also:original investigations in See also:physiology. At this See also:period also he rapidly obtained a large and lucrative practice, and from See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to time he wrote on surgical questions, contributing numerous papers to the Medical and Chiruigical Society, and to the medical See also:journals. Probably his most important See also:work is that entitled Pathological and Surgical Observations on the Diseases of the See also:Joints, in which he attempts to trace the beginnings of disease in the different tissues that See also:form a See also:joint, and to give an exact value to the symptom of See also:pain as See also:evidence of organic disease. This See also:volume led to the See also:adoption by surgeons of See also:measures of a conservative nature in the treatment of diseases of the joints, with consequent reduction in the number of amputations and the saving of many limbs and lives. He also wrote on diseases of the urinary See also:organs, and on See also:local See also:nervous affections of a surgical See also:character. In 1854 he published anonymously a volume of Psychological Inquiries; to a second volume which appeared in 1862 his name was attached. He received many honours during his career. He attended George IV., was sergeant-surgeon to See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William IV. and See also:Queen See also:Victoria, and was made a See also:baronet in 1834. He became a corresponding member of the See also:French See also:Institute in 1844, D.C.L. of See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford in 1855, and See also:president of the Royal Society in 1858, and he was the first president of the See also:general medical See also:council. He died at See also:Broome See also:Park, See also:Surrey, on the 21st of See also:October 1862. His collected See also:works, with auto-See also:biography, were published in 1865 under the editorship of See also:Charles See also:Hawkins.
His eldest son, Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Bart. (1817–188o), was appointed See also:professor of See also:chemistry at Oxford in 1865, and is chiefly known for his investigations on the allotropic states of See also:carbon and for his See also:discovery of graphitic See also:acid.
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