Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1496

THOMAS WATSON (1792-1882) Lectures on the principles and practice of physic. John W. Parker and Son 1857 4th ed. Vol. I: xvi, 871 [1] 8 pp.; Vol. II: viii, 984 pp., 2 plates. 21.9 cm.

Watson studied at Cambridge, began his medical education at London's St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and graduated from Edinburgh in 1825. He was appointed physician to Middlesex Hospital in 1827, held the chair of clinical medicine at the University of London for a year after which he was transferred to King's College where he eventually assumed the chair of the principles and practice of medicine. Watson served as president of the Royal College of Physicians for five years and also was Gulstonian and Lumleian lecturer. Watson commented that "the following Lectures were put together, with unavoidable haste, during the Medical Session of 1836-1837" (Advertisement, p. [vii]) for his classes at King's College in London. They were later published in the Medical times & gazette and were first issued as a book in 1843. A comprehensive and well written guide to clinical medicine, his treatise became very influential and was widely used by students and practitioners.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 2219 (1st ed., 1843)