British Medicine and the Vienna School

Abstract

IN his preface Prof. M. Neuburger remarks that though an intensive study has been made of the history of the medical faculty of Vienna and its connexion with the medical schools of Padua, Leyden, Paris and Germany, a similar work on the correlation of the Vienna and British medical schools had been lacking. He has therefore undertaken to remedy this omission, inspired by the affection for his alma mater and his admiration for the pioneer achievements of British investigators and physicians. The period covered by the book extends from the laddie of the eighteenth century, in which the chief medical men in Vienna were van Swieten and De Haen, who were both followers of Sydenham, and in Great Britain Fothergill, Lettsom and Willan, down to the first quarter of the present century, in which the most notable figures were Nothnagel, Wenkebach, Pirquet and Freud in Vienna, while Hughlings Jackson, Osier and Clifford Allbutt were the most outstanding physicians in Great Britain. British Medicine and the Vienna School Contacts and Parallels. By Dr. Max Neuburger. Pp. 134 + 13 plates. (London : William Heinemann (Medical Books), Ltd., 1943.) 10s. 6d. net.