Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1759

JOHN CHARLES WEAVER LEVER (1811-1858) A practical treatise on organic diseases of the uterus. Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans 1843 viii, 240, 16 pp. 22.1 cm.

Lever studied medicine at Guy's Hospital in London and practiced privately for eight years before becoming one of the first two obstetric physicians and lecturers in midwifery and the diseases of women at Guy's. Lever was the first to determine that there was a relationship between albuminuria and puerperal convulsions. In 1843 the Medical Society of London chose the symptoms and treatment of organic diseases of the uterus as the subject of the Fothergillian Gold Medal Essay. Having the opportunity of seeing upwards of 200 patients at Guy's each week, Lever had ample clinical material from which to prepare this prize-winning essay. In preparing it for publication, Lever noted that he made a few additions and corrections and that "to write elegantly was not my object; neither would my inclination, nor my numerous professional duties, allow me to attempt this" (p. vi).

Cited references: Wellcome III, p. 508