Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1674.5

SAMUEL SOLLY (1805-1871) The human brain: its structure, physiology, and diseases: with description of the typical forms of brain in the animal kingdom Lea and Blanchard 1848 From the 2nd London edition. xix, [33]-496 p. : ill. 24 cm.

Born in London in 1805. Solly was apprentice to Benjamin Travers, Surgeon at St. Thomas’s Hospital, in 1882. On the completion of his apprenticeship in 1828, Solly was admitted to the College of Surgeons and pursued further medical education in France before beginning practice in 1831. Lectured in physiology and anatomy at St. Thomas’s from 1833-1839 and was an Assistant Surgeon from 1841-1853. At the time of his death he was a Surgeon and Lecturer on Surgery. During his life he held several offices within the medical societies of England. He was a council member and examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of England and an Arris and gale professor of Human Anatomy and surgery as well as having been a fellow of the Royal Society early in his career. He also served as the President of the Royal Medial and Chirurgical Society. This particular publication is one of his best known works in addition to the publication of his surgical lectures.