Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1786

WALTER HAYLE WALSHE (1812-1892) The physical diagnosis of diseases of the lungs. Lea & Blanchard 1843 x [2] 310 pp. 17.2 cm.

Walshe, a native of Dublin, began the study of law at Trinity College; however, in 1830 he elected to join his widowed mother in Paris in order to study oriental languages. He then decided to study medicine and began his studies at La Charité and La Pitié before leaving Paris to complete his degree at Edinburgh in 1836. He began practice in London, was appointed professor of morbid anatomy at University College, and in 1846 was elected professor of clinical medicine and physician to University College Hospital. Walshe was later professor of the principles and practice of medicine at the hospital and also served as physician to the Brompton Hospital. This work, also published at London in 1843, became a popular textbook. Walshe's aim was to present "a complete though concise view of the principles and facts of Physical Diagnosis, as applied to diseases of the respiratory organs" (Preface, p. [vii]).