Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2107

SIR WILLIAM MACEWEN (1848-1924) Pyogenic infective diseases of the brain and spinal cord. James Maclehose 1893 xxiv, 354 pp., illus., plates. 22.2 cm.

Macewen . . . studied medicine at Glasgow, and he remained there to adorn the University and the city during the rest of his life. As an undergraduate he studied under Lister, and at the early age of twenty-eight he became a full surgeon to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. . . . Lister was the sole architect of the antiseptic system, but Macewen must be regarded as one of the principal architects of the aseptic system. Macewen's greatest achievement is probably his foundation of neurological surgery. . . . In 1893 he published his great work Pyogenic infective diseases of the brain and spinal cord . . . an incredible record of ten years' achievement. . . . There are few branches of surgery which he did not adorn (Charles Singer and E. A. Underwood, A short history of medicine. Oxford, 1962. pp. 366-368).

Cited references: Cushing M24; Garrison-Morton 4872; Waller 6112

Copy 1: Gift of John Martin, M.D. Copy 2: Gift of William B. Bean, M.D