Marshall Hall (1790-1857) : : science and medicine in early Victorian society / / Diana E. Manuel.

Marshall Hall was trained as a physician in the early nineteenth century, scientifically oriented, University of Edinburgh Medical School. The son of a Methodist cotton manufacturer and bleacher at Nottingham, Hall believed that in science lay the future for progress in medicine. Following early wor...

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Superior document:Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine.
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, 1996.
Year of Publication:1996
Language:English
Series:Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Biography
  • Hall’s Nottingham period: 1817–26
  • Medical education in London
  • Marshall Hall and the Royal Society: 1830–50
  • Hall’s work on the nervous system
  • Hall’s final years.