osophers in things medical had thought more deeply than many of those who came after them. We English are the modern , and we alone have ADDRESS IN MEDICINE. colonized as they did, as free people. There have been other great colonial empires, Phoenician, Roman, Spanish, Dutch At the Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting of the British Medical and French, but in civil liberty and in intellectual freedom Association, Montreal, Aug. 31 to Sept. i, 1897. Magna Graacia and Greater Britain stand alone. The parallel so often drawn between them is of particular interest with ref- BY WILLIAM OSLER, M.D., F.R.C.P. erence to the similarity between the Greek settlements in and the on the PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, BALTIMORE. English plantations Atlantic coast. Indeed, Freeman "I can never think of America the British says, without [From advance sheets of Medical Journal.] something suggesting Sicily, or of Sicily without something BRITISH MEDICINE IN GREATER BRITAIN.\p=m-\THE MAKING OF suggesting America." I wish to use the parallel only to GREATER BRITAIN. emphasize two points, one of difference and one of resem- blance. The Greek colonist took Greece with him. Hellas To trace the evolution of any one of the learned successfully had no geographical bounds. "Massilia and were would the hand of a of cities professions require master, one who, of Hellas in as full a sense as or could combine the for ." Whilo the like Darwin, capacity patient observa- emigrant Britons changed their sky, not their in tion with philosophic vision. In the case of medicine the character, crossing the great sea, yet the home stayers had never the difficulties are enormously increased by the extraordinary same toward the which to the of the feelings plantations as the Greeks had development belongs history present toward the colonial cities of Magna Grœcia. as has The rate of progress has been too for us to If, been century. rapid shrewdly surmised, Professor Seely was reincar- and we stand as it in a appreciate, bewildered, and, were, nate, how grieved the spirit of the "Father of must state of intellectual when we to obtain a History" giddiness, attempt have been to say of "Nor have we even now broad view of the In a Englishmen, comprehensive subject. safer "middle ceased to think of ourselves as a race to dwell on certain of simply inhabiting an flight" it is my purpose the factors island off the northern coast of the continent of which have molded the in lands Europe." profession English-speaking The assumption of gracious care- narrow British superiority which, unless beyond the seas\p=m-\of Medicine in Greater smacks a little of our for this lesser task fully cloaked, just national arrogance, is Britain. Even (though my affiliations are to jar on sensitive colonial nerves. With the wide and I the limitations of apt expansion of my sympathies deep) recognize the empire, and the of a national an my and am not unaware that in my I shall supplanting by imperial fitness, ignorance spirit, this will become impossible. That this sentiment never overlook much which might have rendered less sketchy a in prevailed Hellas, as it did later in the Roman empire, was sketch necessarily imperfect. due to the fact that in advances such slow and largely literature, in science, and in art Evolution by imperceptible degrees the colonial cities of Greece overshadowed the to are of it the of early mother that those who part finger time scarcely cities. It may be because the settlements of Greater seems to move. the are Britian Even great epochs seldom apparent were things of slower growth, that it took several to the During the last neither the generations participators. century and several bitter trials to teach a lesson the Greeks never had colonists nor the mother country appreciated the thrilling to learn. of the duel for the of interest long-fought possession this The Greek spirit was the leaven of the old the The acts and scenes of the world, work- continent. drama, to them ing of which no nationality could resist. Thrice it saved Wes- detached, isolated and independent, now glide like dissolving tern for it had the into each and in the of civilization, magic power of leading captivity views other, vitascope history we can captive, and making even captive the missionaries see the true of events. That we can meet here conquerors sequence today, of culture. What modern medicine owes to it will later. on British soil in a French is one of far appear Britons province, the "The love of science, the love of art, the love of freedom, off results of that struggle. This was but a prelude to the correlated to each of vitally other and brought into organic union" other great event the eighteenth century, the revolt of the were the essential attributes of the Greek and the of a second genius (Butcher). colonies founding great English speaking While we can not claim for the Saxon race the words of Anglo all of these nation—in Bishop Berkeley's prophecy, "Time's it has in a one noblest distinctions, high degree that which in practical offspring." life is the most valuable, and which has been the most precious Surely a unique spectacle that a century later descendants gift of the race to the world—the love of freedom. of the actors of these two dramas should meet in an great Of freedom in her regal seat English city in New Prance. Here the American may forget Of England. in the Bunker Yorktown Louisburg, Englishman Hill in It would carry one too far afield to discuss the and the Frenchman both Louisburg and in difference Quebec, Quebec between the native Briton and his children scattered so Chateauguay ; while we Canadians, English and French, in a widely up and down the earth. In Canada, South spirit, overlooking your unseemly are Africa, forgiving quarrels, only Australia and New Zealand, types of the Saxon race too to welcome to our this land on Anglo happy you country, which, are which will differ as much from and for have so often developing each other which, you fought. Once, and only and from the English as the American does from before in the of the world could such a today the once, history gathering original stock ; but amid these differences can as this have taken Divided the Greeks a everywhere be place. though were, seen those race qualities which have made us what we are— Hellenic sentiment of extraordinary strength united them in national assemblies and festivals. No of "courage, integrity, steady good sense, and energy in certain great flight imagina- work." At a future meeting of the tion is to a notable of our Association, perhaps in required picture representation pro- Australia, a professional Sir Charles with a Arm fifth b. c. in a Dilke, grasp fession in the century meeting such colonial on the subject, may deal with the medical of as under the of problems Greater town Agrigentum presidency . Britain in a manner of the address from the mother brilliant of worthy in medicine. My Delegates cities, predecessors task, as I mentioned at the outset, is much less ambitious. of the stamp of Damocedes and Herodicus, dele- gates from the sister colonies of Syracuse and other Sicilian THE INFLUENCE OF GREECE ON BRITAIN. from towns, from neighboring Italy, far distant Massilia, and Could some one with,, full knowledge patiently analyse the from still more distant Panticapaeum and Istra. And in such characteristics of British medicine he would find certain there would have been men of an assemblage capable discuss national traits, sufficiently distinct for recognition. Three cen- ing problems of life and mind more brilliantly than in many turies can not do very much—and that period has only just subsequent periods, in proportion as the pre Hippocratic phil- passed since the revival of medicine in England—but the local

Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a University of Iowa User on 05/28/2015 conditions of isolation, which have been singularly favorable to methods and became the founder of modern experimental the development of special peculiarities in the national char- physiology and the great glory of British scientific medicine. acter, have not been without effect on the medical profession. The demonstration of the circulation of the blood remains in 1 can not do more than touch upon a few features, not distinc- every detail a model research. I shall not repeat the oft-told tive but illustrative—features which will be useful as indicat- tale of Harvey's great and enduring influence, but I must refer ing the sources of influence upon Greater Britain in the past, to one feature which, until lately, has been also a special and which may, perhaps, be suggestive as to lines of progress characteristic of his direct successors in Great Britain. Har- in th3 future. vey was a practitioner and hospital physician. There are Above the fireplace in Sir Henry Acland's study are three gossiping statements by Aubrey to the effect that "he fell paneled portraits of Linacre, Sydenham and Harvey ; the mightily in his practice" after the publication of the " DeMotu scroll upon them reads Litera',, Praxis, Scientia. To this great Cordis," and that his "therapeutic way" was not admired; triumvirate, as to the fountain heads, we may trace the streams but to these his practical success is the best answer. It is of inspiration which have made British medicine what it is remarkable that a large proportion of all the physiologic today. work of Great Britain has been done by men who have become Linacre, the type of the litery physician, must ever hold a successful hospital physicians and surgeons. I was much im- unique place in the annals of our profession. To him was due pressed by a conversation with Professor Ludwig in 1884. in great measure the revival of Greek thought in the sixteenth Speaking of the state of English physiology, he lamented the in England, and in the last Harveian Oration Dr. lapse of a favorite English from science to ; but century " pupil practice Payne has pointed out his importance as a forerunner of he added, while sorry for him, I am glad for the profession Harvey. He made Greek methods available ; through him the in England." He held that the clinical physicians of that / art of Hippocrates and the science of Galen became once more country had received a very positive impress from the work of the subject of careful, first-hand study. Linacre, as Dr. Payne their early yeare in physiology and the natural sciences. I was remarks, "was possessed from hiB youth till his death by the surprised at the list of names which he cited—among them I enthusiasm of learning. He was an idealist, devoted toobjects remember Bowman, Paget, Savory and Lister. Ludwig attri- which the world thought of little use." Painstaking, accurate, buted this feature in part to the independent character of the critical, hypocritical, perhaps, he remains today the chief liter- schools in England, to the absence of the university element, ary representative of British medicine. Neither in Britain nor so important in medical life in Germany, but, above all, to the in Greater Britain have we maintained the place in the world of practical character of the English mind, the better men pre- letters created for us by Linacre's noble start. It is true that ferring an active life in practice to a secluded laboratory in no generation since has the profession lacked a man who career. might stand unabashed in the temple at ; but, judged by it was who said of the Greeks that they pos- the fruits of learning, scholars of his type have been more sessed " the power of thinking before they acted, and of act- common in France and Germany. Nor is it to our credit that ing too." The same is true in a high degree of the English so little provision is made for the encouragement of these race. To know first what has to be done, then to do it, com- studies. For years the reputation of Great Britain in this prises the whole philosophy of practical life. Sydenham matter was sustained almost alone by the great Deeside scholar, (Angliœ lumen, as he has been well called) is the model practi- the surgeon of Banchory, Francis Adams, the interpreter of cal physician of modern times. Linacre led Harvey back to Hippocrates to English students. In this century he and Galen, Sydenham to Hippocrates. The one took Greek science, Greenhill have well maintained the traditions of Linacre. the other not so much Greek medicine as Greek methods, par- Their work, and that of a few of our contemporaries, among ticularly intellectual fearlessness, and a certain knack of look- whom Ogle must be specially mentioned, has kept us in touch ing at things. Sydenham broke with authority and went to with the ancients. But by the neglect of the study of the Nature. It is an extraordinary fact that he could have been humanities, which has been far too general, the profession loses so emancipated from dogmas and theories of all sorts. He a very precious quality. laid down the fundamental proposition, and acted upon it, While in critical scholarship and in accurate historical stud- that "all diseases should be described as objects of natural ies British medicine must take a second place, the influence of history." To do him justice we must remember, as Dr. John Linacre, exerted through the Royal College of Physicians and Brown says, "in the midst of what a mass of errors and pre- the old Universities, has given to the humanities an important judices, of theories actively mischievous, he was placed, at a part in education, so that they have molded a larger section time when the mania of hypothesis was at its height, and when of the profession than in any other country. A physician may the practical part of his art was overrun and stultified by vile possess the science of Harvey and the art of Sydenham, and and silly nostrums." yet there may be lacking in him those finer qualities of heart Sydenham led us back to Hippocrates ; I would that we and head which count for so much in life. Pasture is not could be led oftener to Sydenham. How necessary to bear in everything, and that indefinable, though well understood, mind what he says about the method of the study of medicine. something which we know as breeding is not always an accom- "In writing, therefore, such a natural history of diseases, paniment of great professional skill. Medicine is seen at its every merely philosophical hypothesis should be set aside, and best in men whose faculties have had the highest and most the manifest and natural phenomena, however minute, should harmonious culture. The Lathams, the Watsons, the Pagets, be noted with the utmost exactness. The usefulness of this the Jenners and the Gairdners have influenced the profession procedure can not be easily over-rated as compared with the less by their special work than by exemplifying those graces of subtle inquiries and trifling notions of modern writers, nor can life and refinements of heart which make up character. And there be a shorter, or indeed any other way of coming at the the men of this stamp in Greater Britain have left the most morbific causes, or of discovering the curative indications, enduring mark : Beaumont, Bovell, and Hodder in Toronto ; than by a certain perception of the peculiar symptoms? By Holmes, Campbell and Howard in this city ; the Warrens, the these steps and helps it was that the father of physic, the Jacksons, the Bigelows, the Bowditches and the Shattucks in great Hippocrates, came to excel, his theory being no more Boston ; Bard, Hossack, Francis, Clark and Flint in New than an exact description or view of Nature. He found that York ; Morgan, Shippen, Redman, Rush, Coxe, the elder Nature alone terminates diseases, and works a cure with a few Wood, the elder Pepper, and the elder Mitchell in Philadelphia simple medicines, and often enough with no medicines at all. ' ' —Brahmins all, in the language of the greatest Brahmin among Well, indeed, has a recent writer remarked, "Sydenham is them, Oliver Wendell Holmes—these, and men like unto them, unlike every previous teacher of the principles and practice of have been the leaven which has raised our profession above medicine in the modern world." the dead level of a business. Sydenham—not Linacre or Harvey—is the model British The literal humaniores represented by Linacre, revived physician, in whom were concentrated all these practical Greek methods, but the faculty at the end of the sixteenth instincts upon which we lay such stress in the Anglo-Saxon and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries was in a slough character. The Greek faculty which we possess of thinking of ignorance and self-conceit, and not to be aroused even by and acting has enabled us, in spite of many disadvantages, to Moses and the prophets in the form of Hippocrates and the take the lion's share in the great practical advances in medi- fathers of medicine. cine. The three greatest scientific movements of the century In the pictures referred to Sydenham is placed between Lin- have come from Germany and France. Bichat, Laennec and acre and Harvey, but science preceded practice, and Harvey's Louis laid the foundation of modern clinical medicine ; Vir- great Lumleian Lectures were delivered before Sydenham was chow and his pupils of scientific pathology ; while Pasteur and born. Linacre has been well called by Payne Harvey's intel- Koch have revolutionized the study of the causes of disease ; lectual grandfather. "The discovery of the circulation of the and yet the modern history of the art of medicine could almost blood was the climax of that movement which began a century be written in its fulness from the records of the Anglo-Saxon and a half before with the revival of Greek medical race. We can claim almost every practical advance of the very and especially of Galen" (Payne). Harvey returned to Greek first rank—vaccination, anesthesia, preventive medicine and

Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a University of Iowa User on 05/28/2015 I antiseptic surgery—the "captain jewels in the carcanet" of "angelical conjunction." He says: "Ever since the days of the profession, beside which can be placed no others of equal Luke, the Evangelist, skill in physick has been frequently pro- luster. fessed and practiced by persons whose more declared business THE INFLUENCE OF AUTHORITY IN MEDICINE. was the study of divinity." Firman himself finding physic One other lesson of Sydenham's life needs careful conning. "but a meane helpe," took orders. These English physicians The English Hippocrates, as I said, broke with authority. His in the New England colonies were scholarly, able men. Roger motto was : Chillingworth, in Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," has " depicted Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law them in a sketch of his own life : Made up of earnest, studi- My services are bound. ous, thoughtful, quiet years, bestowed faithfully for the increase Undue reverence for authority as such, a serene satisfaction of knowledge ; faithfully, too, for the advancement of human with the status quo and a fatuous objection to change, have welfare ; men thoughtful for others, caring little for themselves, often retarded the progress of medicine. In every generation, kind, just, true, and of constant if not warm affections"—a in every country there had been, and ever will be, laudatores singularly truthful picture of the old colonial physician. temporis acti, in the bad sense of that phrase, not a few of Until the establishment of medical of in schools—University them men high places, who have lent the weight of a com- Pennsylvania, 1763; King's College (afterward Columbia) 1767 ; placent conservatism to bolster up an ineffectual attempt to and Harvard, 1782—the supply of physicians for the colonies stay the progress of new ideas. Every innovator from Harvey came from Great Britain, supplemented by men trained under to Lister has been made to feel its force. The recently issued the old apprentice system, and of colonists who went to Edin- life of Thomas Wakley is a running commentary on this spirit, burgh, Leyden and London for their medical education. This against the pricks of which he kicked so hard and so effectually. latter group had a most powerful effect in molding profes- But there are signs of a great change. The old universities sional life in the pre-revolutionary period. They were men and the colleges, once the chief offenders, have been emanci- who had enjoyed not alone the instruction, but often the inti- pated, and remain no longer, as Gibbon found them, steeped mate friendship of the great English and European physicians. in port and prejudice. The value of authority per se has les- Morgan, Rush, Shippen, Bard, Wistar, Hossack and others sened enormously, and we of Greater Britain have perhaps had received an education comprising all that was best in the suffered as the pendulum has swung to the other extreme. period, and had acquired the added culture which can only Practice loves authority, as announced in "the general and come from travel and wide acquaintance with the world, perpetual voice of men" (Hooker). Science must ever hold Morgan, the founder of the medical school of the University with Epicharmus that a judicious distrust and a wise skepti- of Pennsylvania, was away seven years, and before returning cism are the sinews of the understanding. And yet the very had taken his seat as a corresponding member of the French foundations of belief in almost everything relating to our art Academy of Surgery, besides having been elected a Fellow of rest upon authority. The practitioner can not always be the the Royal Society. The war of Independence interrupted judge, the responsibility must often rest with the teachers and temporarily the stream of students, but not the friendship investigators, who can only learn in the lessons of history the which existed between Cullen and Fothergill and their old terrible significance of the word. pupils in America. The correspondence of these two warm In the treatment of fever the fetters of a thousand years friends of the colonies testifies to the strong professional inti- were shattered by Sydenham—shattered only to be riveted anew. macy which existed at the time between the leaders of the How hard was the battle in this century against the intrenched profession in the old and new worlds. But neither Boerhaave, and stubborn foe. Listen to the eloquent pleadings of Stokes, Cullen, nor Fothergill stamped colonial medicine as did the pleading, as did Sydenham, against authority, and against the great Scotchman, John Hunter. Long weary centuries separ- bleedings, the purgings and sweatings of fifty years ago. ated Harvey from Galen ; not a century elapsed from the death "Though his hair be gray, and his authority high, he is but a of the great physiologist to the advent of the man in whose child in knowledge and his reputation an error. On a level with phenomenal personality may be seen all the distinctive traits the child, so far as correct appreciation of the great truths of med- of modern medicine, and the range of whose mighty intellect icine is concerned, he is very different in other respects; his has had few, if any, equals since . Hunter's influence of powers doing mischief are greater ; he is far more danger- on the profession of this continent, so deep and enduring, was ous. Oh ! that men would stoop to learn, or at least cease to exerted in three ways. In the first place, his career as an army destroy." The potency of human authority among the " pow- surgeon, and his writings on subjects of special interest to mili- ers that be" was never better drawn than by the judicious tary men, carried his work and ways into innumerable cam- Hooker in his section on this subject: "And this not only paigns in the long French wars, and the war of Independence. with the 'simpler sort,' but the learneder and wiser we are, Hunter's works were reprinted in America as early as 1791 and the more such arguments in some cases prevail with us. The 1793. In the second place, Hunter had a number of most dis- reason why the simpler sort are moved with authority is the tinguished students from the colonies, among whom were two conscience of their own ignorance ; whereby it cometh to pass who became teachers of wide reputation. William Shippen, that having learned men in admiration, they rather fear to the first Professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsyl- dislike them than know wherefore they should allow and fol- vania, lived with Hunter on terms of the greatest intimacy. low their judgments. Contrariwise with them that are skilful, He brought back his methods of teaching, and some measure authority is much more strong and forcible ; because they only of his spirit. With the exception of Hewson and Home, Hun- are able to discern how just cause there is why to some men's ter had no more distinguished pupil than Philip Syng Physick, authority so much should be attributed. For which cause the who was his House Surgeon at St. George's Hospital, and his name of Hippocrates (no doubt) were more effectual to per- devoted friend. For more than a generation Physick had no suade such men as Galen himself than to move a silly empiric. ' '1 surgical compeer in America, and enjoyed a reputation equaled Sydenham was called "a man of many doubts," and therein ! by no one save Rush. He taught Hunterian methods in the lay the secret of his great strength. largest medical school in the country, and the work of his on is very Hunter Medicine in America : to 1820. nephew (Dorsey) surgery largely modified by Physick. But in a third and much more potent way the Turning now to the main question of the development of great master influenced the profession of this continent. this British medicine in Greater Britain, I must at once Hunter was a naturalist to whom pathologic processes were acknowledge the impossibility of doing justice to it. I can only a small part of a stupendous whole, governed by law, but only indicate a few points of importance, and I must confine which could never be understood until the facts had been my remarks chiefly to the American part of Greater Britain. accumulated, tabulated, and systematized. By his example, We may recognize three periods, corresponding to three dis- by his prodigious industry, and by his suggestive experiments tinct waves of influence : the first from the early migrations to he led men again into the old paths of Aristotle, Galen and about 1820 ; the second from about 1820 to 1860 ; and the third Harvey. He made all thinking physicians naturalists ; he lent from about 1860 to the present time. a dignity to the study of organic life and re-established a close The Colonial settlements were contemporaneous with the union between medicine and the natural sciences. Both in revival of medicine in England. Fellow-students of Harvey Britain and Greater Britain he laid the foundation of the great at Cambridge might have sailed in the Mayfloiver and the collections and museums, particularly those connected with Arbella. The more carefully planned expeditions usually the medical schools. The Wistar-Horner and the Warren enlisted the services of a well trained physician, and the early Museums originated with men who had been greatly influenced records, particularly of the New England colonies, contain by Hunter. He was, moreover, the intellectual father of that many interesting references to these college-bred men. Giles interesting group of men on this side of the Atlantic, who, Firman, who settled in Boston in 1632, a Cambridge man, while practicing as physicians, devoted much time and labor seems to have been the first to give instruction in medicine in to the study of natural history. In the latter part of the last the new world. The parsons of that day had often a smatter- century and during the first thirty years of this, the successful ing of physic, and illustrated what Cotton Mather called an practitioner was very often a naturalist.

Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a University of Iowa User on 05/28/2015 I wish that time permitted me to do justice to the long list den of the Black Forest" in the employ of the Canada Com- of men who have been devoted naturalists, and who have His life in the backwoods at his "Noctes of pany. Gairbraid, made contributions great value. Benjamin Smith Barton, Ambrosianae Canadenses," his famous "Twelve as Jacob Apostles," David Hossack, Bigelow, Richard Harland, John D. he called his mahogany liquor stand (each bottle a full quart), Godman, Samuel George Morton, John Collins Warren, his active political life, his remarkable household, his many Samuel L. Mitchell, J. Aiken Meigs and many others have eccentricities—are they not all portrayed to the life in the left the records of their industry in their valuable works, and recently issued "In the Days of the Canada Company"? in the Transactions of the various societies and academies. 1820-1860. In Canada many of our best naturalists have been physicians, America: in and collections this city testify to the industry of Holmes Turning now to the second period, we may remark in passing and McCullough. I was regretting the humanities a few min- that the nineteenth did not open very for I to century auspiciously utes ago, and now have mourn the almost complete sever- British medicine. Hunter had left no successor, and, power- ance of medicine from the old natural history. To a man the ful as had been his influence, it was too weak to stem the tide most delightful recollections of whose studentship are the Sat- of abstract speculation with which Cullen, Brown and others urdays spent with a preceptor who had a Hunterian appetite flooded the profession. No moré sterile period exists than the from a to for specimens—anything trilobite an acarus—to such early decades of this century. Willan, a great naturalist in a one across the present brilliant outlook comes the shadow of skin diseases, with a few others, save it from utter oblivion. the thought that the conditions of progress will make impossi- The methods of Hippocrates, of Sydenham and of Hunter had ble again such careers as those of William Kitchen Parker and not yet been made available in every day work. The awaken- William Carmichael Mclntosh. ing came in France, and such an awakening ! It can be com- Until about 1820 the English profession of this continent pared with nothing but the renaissance in the sixteenth and knew little else than British medicine. After this date in the seventeenth centuries, which gave us Vesalius and Harvey. United States the ties of professional union with tho old coun- "Citizen" Bichât and Broussais led the way, but Laennec in try became relaxed, owing great part to the increase in the really created clinical medicine as we know it today. The dis- number of home schools, and in part to the development of an covery of auscultation was only an accident—of vast moment American literature. To 1820, 114 native medical books of all it is true—in a systematic study of the correlation of symptoms kinds had been issued from the press, and 131 reprints and with anatomic changes. Louis, Andral and Chomel extended former translations, the English, the latter almost exclusively the reputation of the French school, which was maintained to French (Billings). Turning for a few minutes to the condi- the full until the sixth decade, when the brilliant Trousseau tions of the profession in Canada during this period, I regret ended a long line of Paris teachers, whose audience had been that I can not speak of the many interesting questions relating world wide. to the French colonies. I may mention, however, that with The revival of medicine in Great Britain was directly due to the earliest settlers physicians had come, and among the the French. Bright and Addison, Graves and Stokes, Forbes Jesuits, in their devoted missions, there are records of donnés and Marshall Hall, Latham and Bennett were profoundly (laymen attached to the service) who were members of the pro- affected by the new movement. In the United States, An- fession. One of these, René Goupil, suffered martyrdom at the glican influence did not wane until after 1820. Translations of hands of the Iroquois.2 the works of BichAt as as and there were in appeared early 1802, Between the fall of Quebec 1759 and 1820 the English pop- reprints in subsequent years, but it was not until 1823 that ulation had been increased by the settlement of Upper Canada, the first translation of Laennec—a reprint of Forbes's edition— chiefly by United Empire Loyalists from the United States, was issued. Broussais's works became in transla- from very popular and after the war of 1812 by settlers the old country. tions after 1830, and in the journals from this time on the The physicians in the sparsely settled districts were either change of allegiance became very evident. But men rather young men who sought their fortunes in the new colony or than books diverted the trend of professional thought. were army surgeons who had remained after the Revolutionary After 1825 American students no longer went to Edinburgh war or the war of 1812. The military element gave for some and London, but to Paris, and one can say that between 1830 years a very distinctive stamp to the profession. These sur- and 1860 every teacher and writer of note passed under the geons were men of energy and ability, who had seen much ser- Gallic yoke. The translations of Louis's works, and the extra- vice and were accustomed to order, discipline and success of his American band of " regulations. ordinary pupils—a the ablest Sabine, in his History of the Loyalists," refers to the Tory young men the country has ever seen—added force to the of the doctors, and says that they were not so movement. And this was a in which American proclivities and yet period much disturbed as the lawyers clergymen. Still a good medical literature was made up largely of pirated English many of them left their homes "for conscience sake" ; and Can- books, and the Systems, Encyclopedias, and Libraries, chiefly niff, in his "History of the Profession in Upper Canada," gives reprints, testify to the zeal of the publishers. Stokes, to been Graves, a list of those known have among the United Empire Watson, Todd, Bennett and Williams furnished Anglican pap Loyalists. The character of the men who controlled the pro to the sucklings, as well as strong meat to the full grown. In fession of the new colony is well shown by the proceedings of spite of the powerful French influence the textbooks of the the Medical Board, which was organized in 1819. Drs. schools were almost exclusively English. Macaulay and Widmer, both army surgeons, were the chief In Canada the period from 1820 to 1860 saw the establish- members. The latter, who has well been termed the father of ment of the English universities and medical schools. In Mon- the profession in Upper Canada, a man of the very highest treal the agencies at work were wholly Scotch. The McGill character did more than any one else to promote the progress Medical School was organized by Scotchmen, and from its of the profession, and throughout his long career his efforts inception has followed closely Edinburgh methods. The Paris were always directed to the proper channels. In influence, less personal, was exerted chiefly through most looking English through Canniff's valuable work one is much impressed and Scotch channels. The Upper Canada schools were organ- by the sterling worth and mettle of the old army surgeons, who ized by men with English affiliations and the traditions of in these early days formed the larger part of the profession. Guy's, St. Bartholomew's, St. Thomas's, St. George's, and of The minutes of the Medical Board indicate with what military the London Hospital rather than those of Edinburgh, have discipline the candidates were examined, and the percentage prevailed in Toronto and Kingston. of rejections has probably never been higher in the history of The local French influence in British medicine in Canada the province than it was in the first twenty years of the exist- has been very slight. In the early decades of the century, ence of the Board. when the cities were smaller and the intercourse between the One picture on the canvas of those early days lingers in the French and English somewhat closer, the reciprocal action was of memory, illustrating many the most attractive features of a more marked. At that period English methods became some- race which has done much to make this country what it is what the vogue the French ; several very of among prominent today. Widmer was the type the dignified old army sur French Canadians were Edinburgh graduates. Attempts were geon, scrupulously punctilious, and in every detail of made in the medical journals to have communications in " regardful both the proprieties of life. Tiger" Dunlop may be taken as the languages, but the fusion of the two sections of the profession very incarnation of that restless, roving spirit which has driven was no more feasible than the fusion of the two nationalities, the Scotch broadcast upon the world. After fighting with the and the development has progressed along separate lines. Connaught Rangers in the war of 1812, campaigning in India, clearing the Sangur of tigers—hence his sobriquet "Tiger" America : 1860-1897. lecturing on medical jurisprudence in Edinburgh, writing for— The third period dates from about 1860, when the influence Blackwood, editing the British Press and the Telescope, intro- of German medicine began to be felt. The rise of the Vienna ducing Beck's Medical Jurisprudence to English readers, and school was for a long time the only visible result in Germany figuring as director and promoter of various companies, this of the French renaissance. Skoda, the German Laennec, and extraordinary character appears in the young colony as ' ' War- Rokitansky, the German Morgagni, influenced English and

Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a University of Iowa User on 05/28/2015 American thought between 1840 and 1860, but it was not until presented. Where else in the world is there such a field for after the last date that Teutonic medicine began to be felt as a observation in cholera, leprosy, dysentery, the plague, typhoid vitalizing power, chieflly through the energy of Virchow. fever, malaria, and in a host of other less important maladies? After the translation of the "Cellular Pathology" by Chance And what has the British Goverment done toward the scien- (1860) the way lay clear and open to every young student who tific investigation of the diseases of India? Until recently lit- desired inspiration. There had been great men in Berlin before tle or nothing, and the proposal to found an institute for the Virchow, but he made the town on the Spree a Mecca for the scientific study of disease has actually come from the native faithful of all lands. From this period we can date the rise of chiefs. The work of Dr. Hankin and of Professor Haffkine, German influence in the profession of this continent. It came and the not unmixed evil of the brisk epidemic of plague in partly through the study of pathologic histology under the Bombay, may arouse the officials to a consciousness of their stimulus given by Virchow, and partly through the develop- shortcomings. While sanitary progress has been great, as ment of the specialties, particularly diseases of the eye, of the shown in a reduction of the mortality from 69 per mille before skin, and of the larynx. The singularly attractive courses of 1857 to 15 per mille at present, many problems are still urgent, Hebra, the organization on a large scale in Vienna of a system as may be gathered from Dr. Harvey's Presidential Address of graduate teaching, designed especially for foreigners, the in the Proceedings of the Indian Medical Congress. That remarkable expansion of the German laboratories, combined to typhoid fever can be called the "scourge of India," and that divert the stream of students from France. The change of the incidence of the disease should remain so high among the allegiance was a deserved tribute to the splendid organization troops, points to serious sanitary defects as yet unremedied. of the German Universities, to the untiring zeal and energy of As to the prevalence of venereal disease among the soldiers, an their professors, and to their single-minded devotion to science admission of nearly 500 per mille tells its own tale. On read- for its own sake. ing the journals and discussions one gets the impression that things are not as they should be in India. There seems to be MEDICINE IN AUSTRALASIA. an absence of proper standards of authority. Had there been in each Presidency during the past twenty years well-equipped In certain aspects the Australasian settlements present the of most interesting problems of Greater Britain. More Government laboratories in charge able men, well trained homoge- in modern the contributions to our of neous, isolated, must work methods, knowledge thoroughly British, distant, they diseases have been at any out their destiny with a less stringent environment than, for epidemic might epoch-making, and, example, surrounds the in Canada. The traditions rate, we should have been spared the crudeness which is evi- English dent in some of the work (particularly in that upon malaria) are more uniform, and, of whatever character, have filtered of but through British channels. The professional population of zealous badly trained men. native trained men is as yet small, and the proportion of grad- uates and licentiates from the English, Scotch and Irish Col- THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE IN GREATER BRITAIN. and Boards the dominance of old leges guarantees country In the of medicine in the countries ideas. What the maturity will show can not be predicted, but estimating progress the vigorous infancy is full of "crescent promise." On look- comprising Greater Britain, the future rather than the present should be in our minds. The strides which have been taken ing over the files of Australian and New Zealand journals one is impressed with the monotonous similarity of the diseases in during the past twenty years are a strong warrant that we the Antipodes to those of Great Britain and of this continent. have entered upon a period of exceptional development. Except in the matter of parasitic affections and snake bites, When I see what has been accomplished in this city in the nosology presents few distinctive qualities. The short space of time since I left I can scarcely credit my eyes. ¿the proceed- The exceeds the utmost desires of my dreams. The ngs of the four Intercolonial Congresses indicate a high level reality °f In two Australia has not awakening of the profession in the United States to a con- professional thought. points sciousness of their and has as other parts of Greater Britain. The responsibilities opportunities Progressed satisfactory caused which have an to of practice, so early settled in has been unparalleled changes, given impetus regulation Canada, medical work which borne a beset with many difficulties. Both in the United States and has already rich harvest. Within two hundred years who can say where the intellectual center in Australia the absence of the military element, which was so of the race strong in Canada, may, in part at least, account for the great Anglo-Saxon will be? The mother country her- difference which has prevailed in this matter of the State self has only become an intellectual nation of the first rank license. The other relates to the question of ethics, to which within a period altogether too short to justify a prediction that she has reached the zenith. She will reverse one really does not care to refer, were it not absolutely forced probably the attention in the Elsewhere the history of Helios, in which the mental superiority was upon reading journals. profes- at first with the colonies. At the end of the next sional squabbles, always so unseemly and distressing, are century hap- ardent old-world students come to this "as o'er a rare, and in Great Britain and on this side may side, pily becoming very from masters, in of the water we try at any rate to wash our dirty linen at home. brook," seeking inspiration great perhaps this or the current turn toward the schools In the large Australian cities differences and dissensions seem very city ; may of the nations of the South. Under new and lamentably common. Surely they must be fermented by the great previously atrocious system of election to the hospitals, which plunges unkown conditions the Africander, the Australian, or the New Zealander reach a before which even the entire profession every third or fourth year into the throes may development the that was Greece" as of a contest in which the candidates have to solicit the suf- "glory may pale. Visionary this frages of from 2,000 to 4,000 voters. Well indeed might Dr. may appear, it is not one whit more improbable today than Batchelor, in his address to the Fourth Intercolonial Congress, would have been a prophecy made in 1797 that such a gather- as the would be a on : "It is a scandal that in any British much less ing present possible within century the say community, banks of the St. Lawrence. in a which takes in a such community pride progressive spirit, Meanwhile to the of modern medicine a pernicious system should survive for an hour." throbbing vitality the two great meetings held this month, in lands so widely MEDICINE IN HINDUSTAN. distant, bear eloquent testimony. Free, cosmopolitan, no longer hampered by the dogmas of schools, we may feel a just Of India, of "Vishnu-land," what can one say in a few min- pride in a profession almost totally emancipated from the utes? Three thoughts at once claim recognition. Here, in bondage of error and prejudice. Distinction of race, national- the dim dawn of history, with the great Aryan people, was the ity, color and creed are unknown within the portals of the intellectual cradle of the world. To the Hindus we owe a debt temple of ¿Esculapius. Dare we dream that this harmony and which we can at any rate acknowledge, and even in medicine cohesion so rapidly developing in medicine, obliterating the many of our traditions and practices may be traced to them, as strongest lines of division, knowing no tie of loyalty but loyalty as may be gathered from that most interesting "History of to truth—dare we hope, I say, that in the wider range of Aryan Medical Science," by the Thakore Sahib of Gondal. human affairs a similar solidarity might ultimately be reached? Then there arises the memory of the men who have done so Who can say that the forges of Time will weld no links much for British medicine in this great empire. Far from between man and man stronger than those of religion or of their homes, far from congenial surroundings, and far from country? Some son of Beor, touched with a prophetic vision, the stimulus of scientific influences, Annesley and Ball- piercing the clouds which now veil the eternal sunshine of the ingall, Twining, Morehead, Waring, Parkes, Cunningham, mountain top ; some spectator of all time and all existence (to Lewis, Vandyke Carter and many others have nobly upheld use 's expression) might see in this gathering of men of the traditions of Harvey and of Sydenham. On the great epi one blood and one tongue a gleam of hope for the future, of demie diseases how impoverished would our literature be in hope, at any rate, that the great race, so dominant on the the absence of their contributions ! But then there comes the earth today, may progress in the bonds of peace—a faint glim- thought of "the little done, the undone vast," when one con- mer, perhaps, of the larger hope of humanity of the day when siders the remarkable opportunities for study which India has "the common sense of most shall hold a fretful world in awe."

Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a University of Iowa User on 05/28/2015 But these, I fear, are the dreams of the closest student who depth with a minimum width, so far as this may be knows not the world nor its ways. There remains for us, consistent with abundance of room for the heart and Greater Britons, of whatsoever land, the bounden duty to is the desideratum. This of chest cherish the best traditions of our fathers, and particularly of great vessels, type the men who gave to British medicine its most distinctive has passed into popular literature as the well-known features ; of the men, too, who found for us the light and chest of the hound or the race and it is of "deep" horse; liberty Greek thought—Linacre, Harvey and Sydenham— curious to note to what an a process of those "ancient founts of and models for all time very extent, by inspiration," terms are of this form in literature, science and practice. transference, which descriptive to the human where REFERENCES. of chest have been applied torso, 1 Ecclesiastical Polity, Book ii, vii, 2. we shall see they are anything but appropriate. The 2 Parkman: Jesuits in North America. other type of chest is that in which the transverse diameter equals or exceeds the anteroposterior, and is found almost solely in two widely separate families, the numerous but aberrant order of bats, and the higher primates, the anthropoid apes and man. So SOME DEFORMITIES OF THE CHEST IN striking was this departure from the commonest type THE LIGHT OF ITS ANCESTRY that the bats were actually placed in close relation to AND GROWTH. man, in the old Linnean system. Here again, however, a mechanical explanation would appear to be adequate Presented in the Section on Practice of Medicine at the Forty-eighth two Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held to account for the form. The families have at Philadelphia, Pa., June 1-4. 1897. absolutely nothing in common, save the fact that the BY WOODS HUTCHINSON, A.M., M.D. anterior limbs are no longer used for supporting the PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO. body during ground locomotion, in the bats being BUFFALO, N. Y. used for flight, and in the anthropoid and human I can invite your attention to only a limited por- species for swinging through the branches. Thus tion of the most interesting field of deformities of the there is no longer a necessity for a limited backward chest; and even here my presentation can not claim and forward movement of the limbs in parallel lines, to be exhaustive, but simply suggestive of certain so that the "keel" or boat-shaped form of chest is no lines for future work and discussion. The deformi- longer a necessity, and the great sheet of the pectoral ties I have chosen are the common and important ones muscles, using the wing in the one case and the hand of (so-called) flat chest, "pigeon-breast," "guttered" with the branch it has seized, in the other, as its fixed sternum, Harrison's groove and "funnelchest" ("Trich- point, is continually pulling the prominent sternum ter Brust"). These may be, at first sight, divided back toward the vertebral column. The ribs yield at into two apparently distinct classes, those in which the their angle and we have the anteroposterior chest transverse diameter is increased at the expense of the gradually transforming itself into the tranverse form. anteroposterior, which for the sake of brevity in our The bird, it may be said in passing, solves the prob- future discussion we will call the transverse or "bel- lem in a somewhat different way by the development lows" form of chest, and those in which the increase of his enormous keel or crest on the sternum, the appears to be the antero-posterior diameter and the actual chest wall itself remaining, however, in very contraction in the transverse, which again, for the much the same shape, with only a slight preponder- sake of brevity, we will call the antero-posterior or ance of the anteroposterior over the transverse diame- "keeled" type of chest. It is also obvious that these ter. After the upright position has been attained this increases and diminutions of the diameters are relative modification goes still further. The arms hang by rather than absolute, and that when we say that a the sides instead of being permanently extended in a chest is flattened, what we mean is not so much that forward or dorsiventral direction. The shoulder-gir- its anteroposterior diameter is absolutely diminished, dle, with its great mass of muscles and attached limbs, as that this is short in comparison with or relative to sinks downward from its former position and begins the transverse diameter, and vice versain regard to the to press more or less firmly upon the lateral aspects anteroposterior chest. In fact, the deformities of the of the chest wall, and the first joint of the limb lies chest would appear to depend upon a flattening or parallel and in contact with almost the entire lateral compression in the anteroposterior diameter and border of the chest. As a result the lateral expansion bulging in the transverse, or vice versa. In the trans- of the wings of the chest, which is the chief factor in verse or "bellows" class of chests, we would place the quadrupedal respiration, as can be shown in the innumerable varieties of flat chest, hollow chest as it heaving flanks of the race horse or of the hound after is often termed, and the singular funnel chest; while the chase, this lateral expansion is interfered with by under the anteroposterior type would be placed the the pressure and the presence of a joint of the pigeon breast and guttered, or grooved, sternum. It limb in this situation; and the anterior aspect of the would also appear that these two divisions corre- chest, having been completely freed from the former sponded fairly accurately to the two great types of splint-like action of the limbs, begins to become the chest among the mammalia. The one, the typical most freely movable part of the wall, and we have the quadrupedal chest—as found in the carnívora, the rising and falling or anteroposterior type of respira- ungulates, and the great majority of the families of tion to a large extent substituted for the lateral or this class—has an anteroposterior diameter which is wing-like type. To afford still greater freedom for this distinctly in excess of the transverse, so that a trans- the girdle and its scapula? recede still further toward verse section of the chest cavity would form an oval the vertebral column until they come, ultimately, to lie or heart-shaped figure with its long diameter perpen- almost directly on the flattened posterior wall of the dicular to the anterior wall (sagittal). This form of chest. In fact, the chest comes to act like a pair of chest is obviously necessitated by and correlated bellows, of which the vertebral wall is the fixed and with the backward and forward swing of the anterior the sternal wall the movable flap. I am convinced limbs in the movements of locomotion. Maximum that one of the most important factors in the proper

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