Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2102

SIR BYROM BRAMWELL (1847-1931) Diseases of the spinal cord. William Wood 1886 2nd ed. xiv, 298 pp., [53] plates (part col.), illus. 22.8 cm.

Bramwell graduated in medicine from Edinburgh in 1869 and entered private practice with his father. In 1872 he began teaching medical jurisprudence at Durham University and in 1874 became physician and pathologist in Newcastle-on-Tyne. In 1880 he returned to Scotland to teach on the faculty at Edinburgh, subsequently being appointed pathologist and physician to the Royal Infirmary. Bramwell was an expert diagnostician and a clinical teacher of great skill whose classes were large and well attended. Bramwell was interested in diseases of the nervous system and his Intracranial tumours (Edinburgh, 1888) became a standard work in the field during the late nineteenth century. The present work became a textbook of great repute and was widely used during his day. This second edition is an extensive revision of the first edition of 1882, with many new illustrations depicting microscopic pathology of the spinal cord. With two exceptions the illustrations were drawn by Bramwell who used illustrative material extensively in his lectures. Bramwell includes an informative section on examining the injured spinal column in railway cases, with special reference to the legal ramifications of the physician's findings and testimony in court cases.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 4565 (1st ed., Edinburgh, 1882)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.