Discoveries in science by the medical philosopher : An oration delivered on the ninety-sixth anniversary of the Medical society of London, Monday, March 8th, 1869 / by Sir G. Duncan Gibb, bart.

  • Gibb, G. Duncan (George Duncan), Sir, 1821-1876.
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1869
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Credit: Discoveries in science by the medical philosopher : An oration delivered on the ninety-sixth anniversary of the Medical society of London, Monday, March 8th, 1869 / by Sir G. Duncan Gibb, bart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Human Foot, which ended in complete suc¬ cess. Mr. Spencer Watson is giving us new information concerning the eye. Dr. Forbes Winslow is our greatest Philosopher on Mental Diseases, and a former Lettsomian Lecturer and President. And lastly Dr. Yearsley alphabetically closes my list, and of his many discoveries in Aural Pathology, he will ever be remembered by posterity for his Artificial Tympanum for treating Deafness attended by Perforation, and by his method of applying Substances to the Ear for the relief of Deafness in cases of Perforation of the Tympanum. It might seem that in this brief record which pretends to give merely the cream on the surface of what so many fertile minds have accomplished, scant justice is done, but unless I went specially into the multifarious discoveries of all, an impos¬ sible circumstance in this place, I could not venture upon more. Among our Honorary and Corresponding Fellows, both at home and in distant countries, are the names of many worthy of consideration here, but as time and space warn me to forbear, I shall mention only one, Dr. William Marsden &