Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1456

PETER MERE LATHAM (1789-1875) Lectures on subjects connected with clinical medicine. Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell 1837 154 pp. 22.4 cm.

Latham received his medical degree from Oxford, having studied medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London. He was elected physician to the Middlesex Hospital in 1815 and in 1824 was appointed physician to St. Bartholomew's. Latham was very active in the affairs of London's Royal College of Physicians serving three times as Censor and many years on the council; he was Gulstonian and Lumleian lecturer, and Harveian orator in 1839. The present work was first published at London in 1836 and consists of fifteen lectures given to the students at St. Bartholomew's. Commenting on this book, Sir Thomas Watson (see No. 1496) said it "marked an era in the clinical teaching of this country. Among their incidental good effects was that of commending to our acceptance and study the even then novel theory and practice of auscultation, by substituting for the technical terminology of Laennec, words and phrases more simple and familiar to the English ear" (see No. 1496, Vol. I, p. xxii).

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Cited references: Wellcome III, p. 454 (London ed., 1836)

Gift of William B. Bean, M.D