Identifier: someapostlesofph00stir (find matches)
Title: Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Stirling, William, 1851-1932
Subjects: Physiology Physiologists Physiology
Publisher: London : Priv. print. by Waterlow and sons limited
Contributing Library: West Virginia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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N - ^jti- > UJ Ol K < ; I/) <4% 121 Sir WM. BOWMAN. 1816-1892. THE year 1816 saw the birth of two great English men of science,whose names are associated with epoch-making discoveries,Win. Bowman and A. Waller. Cheshire (Nantwich) and notLancashire was the birthplace of Wm. Bowman. After gainingrenown as an anatomist and physiologist— He stepped naturally and easily into the position of leader and representative ofophthalmic medicine and surgery, holding the same position in this country, thoughfor a far longer period, that was occupied in Germany by his friend Von Graefe,and in Holland by his still more intimate associate Donders. Desiring to enter the medical profession, he was apprenticed, atthe age of sixteen, to Mr. Joseph Hodgson, a member of the Societyof Friends, in Birmingham. In 1837 he went to Kings College,London, where he filled various offices in connection with anatomyand physiology, and where he made the acquaintance of John (after-wards Sir) Simon, R. B. To

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