Abstract
When I saw this book listed by R. D. Gurney, the London antiquarian bookseller, I ordered it because I had recently become acquainted with the name of Edward Stanley (1791-1862). While glancing through an 1882 volume of the<i>Louisville Medical News</i>,<sup>1</sup>I had seen a reference to Stanley, as one who had described neurogenic arthritis in 1824, long before Charcot. The Louisville editor had seen a reference to Stanley by F. S. Eve in<i>St. Bartholomew's Hospital Reports</i>.<i>2</i> When I had read Stanley's stirring description of a spontaneous dislocation of the hip in a tabetic patient,<sup>3</sup>I sensed that he must have been an unusual man. I then found his name in several Nineteenth Century books on my shelves. In particular, Sir James Paget<sup>4</sup>attributed the rise of St. Bartholomew's medical school almost entirely to Stanley, who was Abernethy's successor. He taught at Barts for 50
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