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Title: Letters from foreign lands
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Eccles, R. G. (Robert Gibson), 1848-1934
Subjects: History of Medicine Physicians
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo. : Medical Fortnightly
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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ble Haeckels Evolution of Man. As the Darwins linked Edinburgh withCambridge so Dr. Thomas S3Tdenham, theEnglish Hippocrates, linked Cambridgewith Oxford. He graduated as Bachelor ofMedicine at All Souls College, Oxford,and as Doctor of Medicine at PembrokeHall, Cambridge. He saved regular medi-cine from disgrace by defending the use ofcinchona; he started the use of tincture ofopium; he was the first to diagnose scarletfever and the first to identify chorea; hefirst taught that disease is a conservativeeffort on the part of nature to overcomesome evil cause that he could not fullyunderstand; he fed fevers, and he firstadvocated the let alone doctrine in allcases not properly understood. He was aterror and a crank in the eyes of manyof his medical contemporaries, because hein numerous ways anticipated twentiethcentum medicine, over two hundred yearsin advance of his age. The trip from Cambridge to Oxfordcarries the tourist over a little more thansixty miles of interesting country. Na-
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120 thaniel Hawthorne wrote that The world,surely, has not another place like Oxford;it is a despair to see such a place and everto have to leave it, for it would take a life-time and more than one, to comprehend andenjoy it satisfactorily. In it there aretwenty one colleges, from each of whichhas graduated many eminent men. Ref-erence has already been made to two of itsgreatest graduates—Jenner of vaccinationfame and Lyell the geologist. The latterled the way to Darwins Origin of Speciesby showing the earths record of progressivedevelopment. Darwins keenest interestcentered on this Scotch savan when tryingto convince the world of the truth of NaturalSelection. Lyell, Huxle3T, Hooker and theAmerican botanist, Asa Gra)r, were the fourmen whom his heart was set upon as themost important converts to make, and heconverted them all. Other forerunners ofDarwin, on the philosophical side, wereLocke and Berkley. The)T were bothOxford men. Along with Hume, of Edin-burgh, the)r constitute a t

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