Download or read book James Hill a Dumfries Neurosurgeon written by Jeremy C. Ganz and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this book, James Hill (1703-1776), was born into a Scotland which had been riven for half a century with political and economic conflicts, which had direct effects on his own family. King Charles II was restored to the UK throne in 1660 and a period of expansion of the arts science and trade followed in England. In Scotland, the period was quite different. Charles was the head of an Episcopalian church and was determined that Presbyterian Scotland should return to this form of worship. There followed years of persecution and mutual intolerance. James received his medical education as an apprentice to an Edinburgh surgeon, George Young who was closely involved in the Scottish Enlightenment. His apprenticeship was followed by two years at sea. He then returned to his home region of Dumfries and started to practice surgery in 1732, continuing there until 1776. As this book shows, he achieved a grand reputation as a surgeon, and was respected not only locally, but also in neighbouring counties and the capital. His greatest contribution was in the treatment of head injuries, treating 18 cases, of which only three died. Two of these had untreatable injuries and the third refused surgery. The book notes that, despite James Hill’s close relationship to the harshness of religious conflicts, this does not seem to have been a major influence on him. On the other hand, the Enlightenment was clearly important given his attitude to prefer his own observations to the teachings of past authorities. His reputation persisted for a century after his death, but has since gradually faded, and, as such, this book documents the contribution of a most important surgeon in the management of cranial trauma.
Download or read book James Hill written by Jeremy C. Ganz and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 18th century a surgeon called James Hill lived and worked in Dumfries in Scotland. He was a major contributor to the science of surgery and recorded much better results than his contemporaries both for cancer and head injuries. This book is concerned head injuries and his contribution to their management was widely admired in his time all over Great Britain. His fame persisted for over one hundred years after his death. Unfortunately, as he lived in Dumfries, a provincial town without a large institution to remember its important sons, he has subsequently been forgotten. The material which forms the foundation on which the medical part of this book is based has been acquired using a method not previously employed in the writings of medical historical texts. It may be called the technique of tabulation and time. In brief, the case histories of all the surgeons with series of patients have been analysed using the data to be found within the text. Thus, tables are made including date, age, gender, type of trauma, type of injury, time from injury to treatment, timing of complications, need for surgery, complications of surgery, survival, death, cause of death and others. Analysis of these tables has provided interesting new data, including precise definition of differences in practice, mortality rates and discrepancies between statements of intent and actual practice. This book is aimed at anyone interested in medical history and particularly the history of neurosurgery. It consists of three sections. The first section introduces some of the background in which Hill's life was passed. His family and he lived in politically dramatic times with stirring conflicts between various Christian denominations much like the internecine strife so characteristic of contemporary Islam. An outline of the social currents of his day gives some impression of the influences to which he would have been exposed. In the event, it would seem that the influences of his formative years had less effect on his behaviour than the influences of the Scottish Enlightenment. The second section outlines surgical practice and concepts during the eighteenth century. While this is only about context, for a modern reader so much of it is unfamiliar, a reasonably detailed description is necessary, or it is not possible to understand the contributions of a surgeon practising in the eighteenth century. In conclusion, the reader will hopefully find this a useful addition to current understanding of the seeds from which modern neurosurgery has grown and will enjoy, as the author has done, the rainy windswept town of Dumfries and its environs which form the backdrop for this account. Any surgeon knows the tyranny of the telephone when on duty and the tension a telephone bell can produce even when on holiday. In Hill's world there were no telephones, so he was spared that stress. On the other hand, an emergency involved someone walking or riding out on horseback over dreadful roads to call him to the home of a patient. It is documented he never failed to respond to such a summons. This taken together with his results surely makes him a man who deserves our respect, attention and remembrance
Download or read book Neurosurgery before Science written by Jeremy C. Ganz and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has become increasingly clear that it is easy to misunderstand how surgery functioned in the past. It is all too easy to regard our ancestors as less privileged than ourselves, whereas they were probably every bit as intelligent, but with a different set of priorities. This book traces the development of the profession of surgery and the preoccupations and concerns of its practitioners, from Hippocrates to the early nineteenth century. Topics discussed here include the personal characteristics of surgeons and the regulation of the practice of surgery. The study of anatomy and its limitation by political and philosophical taboos is also considered, while common procedures without merit such as bloodletting or trepanning are analysed. The illogical myth of laudable pus is examined in some detail, as are the modern conceptions of surgical infection in times past. The book’s main concern is to demonstrate the profession’s resistance to new ideas, preferring the comfort of accepted notions even if the evidence confounds them.
Download or read book Trepanation Trephining and Craniotomy written by José M González-Darder and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes readers on a journey around the world and through time, accompanied by a modern neurosurgeon who reviews historical techniques and instruments used for cranial opening. The author draws on original medical and surgical books to provide a comprehensive history of these techniques and tools. To complement the general overview and offer readers a more ‘hands-on’ sense of context and atmosphere, extensive historical references, stories, media news and illustrative cases have been included for each historical and geographical scenario. In addition, original illustrations and plates of these archaic instruments and techniques are supplied. Neurosurgical surgeons, nurses, technicians, medical historiographers, paleo-pathologists and researchers interested in surgical techniques for cranial opening will find the volume a valuable guide, intended to increase the historical and cultural awareness of this core topic in neurological surgery.
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