Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1638

WILLIAM THOMSON (1802-1852) Historical notices on the occurrence of inflammatory affections of the internal organs after external injuries and surgical operations. John J. Haswell 1840 43, 31, 36 pp. 22 cm.

Thomson, who studied medicine both at Edinburgh and Glasgow, received his medical degree at Aberdeen. He was professor of medicine at Glasgow from 1841 until his death and also served as one of the physicians to the Royal Infirmary. He became interested in internal inflammatory infections caused by local injuries or surgical operations while he was a student studying in Paris during 1823. Thomson prepared the present work during the winter of 1824-1825 with the intention of using it as his inaugural dissertation. When that did not prove to be feasible, he asked his friend John William Turner (1790-1836) to review his work and, after Turner's death, decided to publish the treatise. Thomson noted that many articles had been published on the subject since he did his work but none gave a narrative history such as he had prepared. Taken largely from the periodical and monograph literature of his day, Thomson's treatise ends with a series of nine conclusions in which he summarizes his findings.

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