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Letters Hugh M. Fitzpatrick Sir: I wish to inform you of a manuscript letter I have found written and signed on headed notepaper on 2 April 1868 by James Whiteside (1804–1876), during his tenure as Chief Justice of the Queen’s Bench in Ireland (between 1866 and 1876). In this letter, Whiteside mentions “dear dirty Dublin,” a phrase often associated with James Joyce. As is well known, Joyce used it in the set of short stories that comprise Dubliners and in the presentation of Dublin in Ulysses (D 75, U.7.921). While Joyce, in his literary experimentation, coined a myriad of new words, he did not create the term “dear dirty Dublin.” The origin of this popular, pithy utterance is something I have been curious about for many years because, like Joyce, I was born and bred in Dublin and also educated by the Jesuits. Therefore, in my current role as librarian and legal bibliographer, I am keen to share this discovery with your readers. A few commentators suggest that the expression was part of contemporary oral culture; others mistakenly claim that the Irish novelist, Lady Sydney Morgan, was its originator. I propose that some credit for this alliterative epithet should be given to Whiteside, one of Ireland’s most eminent lawyers in the Victorian era, whom Joyce himself had recognized in Ulysses as “a master of forensic eloquence” (U 7.735–36). In the source I have located, Whiteside expresses interest in a House of Commons winding-up speech by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli on the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland. The final comment in the letter prepared by Whiteside, in which he discusses family and travel arrangements, reads: “I return to my wife and my duties in dear dirty Dublin.” I believe that Whiteside’s use of this phrase is among the earliest so far identified. [End Page 795] Hugh M. Fitzpatrick Lectures in Legal Bibliography Dublin, Ireland Copyright © 2011 University of Tulsa

The History of the Popular Medicine of England.

Folk medicine has always been a very important element in the care of the sick, or those who thought they were. For all prehistoric times and, for the most part, during historic times folk medicine was the only medicine people got. The degrees of sophistication arrived at in folk medicine and medical lore of the populace give a good measure of the social conditions of a period of history and of various regions of the world. Folk medicine should be distinguished from quackery, which is the practice of deceit by the unscrupulous for profit and an example of the immemorial practice whereby the greedy gull the guileless. Richard R. Trail has surveyed the history of folk medicine in England in his 1964-1965 Fitzpatrick Lectures. As medicine has become more complicated, it has separated fairly widely from folk practice but quickly returns if standards slacken or ideas outrace common sense. Throughout

The History of Paediatrics: The Progress of the Study of Diseases of Children up to the End of the XVIIIth Century, by George Frederic Still, M.D. London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1965, 526 pp., 5.10.0 ($15.50)

First published in 1931 as an enlargement upon the Fitzpatrick lectures which were given a few years earlier at the Royal College of Physicians in London, the original edition of this book had become a rarity thanks to Hitler's bombers which destroyed all but about 800 copies. Now this facsimile reprint will meet an eager welcome. It complements Ruhräh's Pediatrics of the Past, which Still, in his preface, described as so "masterly and delightful an anthology." Using the biographical method, the growth of medical interest in children is traced chronologically from Hippocrates to Jenner, a period from about 400 B.C. to 1800 A.D. An appendix listing pediatric inaugural dissertations written between the years 1573 and 1799 and another listing minor writings, dissertations, and pamphlets from 1729 to 1797, as well as an index of names and subjects, add to the usefulness of the book. George Frederic Still (1868-1941), whose last name is the eponym for juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (the theme of his graduation thesis in 1897), was one of the first in England to devote himself to pediatrics as a modem specialty. He was the first professor of diseases of children in King's College, London, and the author of many important pediatric papers, as well as several books among which is his popular and beautifully written textbook on Common Disorders and Diseases of Children. But his most enduring gift to mankind is this remarkably accurate and scholarly study of the history of pediatrics. This reprint is a photocopy of the original. Nothing but the name of the publisher on the title page has been altered, which will prove a boon to true scholars even though it stops short of the nineteenth and twentieth cunturies.

The Evolution of Clinical Methods in Medicine: Being the Fitzpatrick Lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in 1960–61

Medical Journal of AustraliaVolume 2, Issue 8 p. 307-308 Reviews The Evolution of Clinical Methods in Medicine: Being the Fitzpatrick Lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in 1960–61 First published: 01 August 1964 https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1964.tb115769.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume2, Issue8August 1964Pages 307-308 RelatedInformation

The Evolution of Clinical Methods in Medicine: Being the Fitz-Patrick Lectures Delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in 1960-61

Since present-day medicine rests so largely upon laboratory data, today's students find difficulty in imagining any other form of practice. Only the historical approach can place these tests into the correct perspective. The methods used by the physician to diagnose disease have varied greatly over the years, and, as Keele states, represent logical application of contemporary knowledge, depending on contemporary science. The history of medicine and the history of science are closely intertwined. In four chapters Keele surveys the evolution of clinical methods. First he takes up medicine in various ancient civilizations. Clinical history-taking and straightforward observation were the only available rational methods (but physicians were by no means always rational). The brilliant achievements of Hippocrates, depending on careful observation and cautious generalizations, were the foundations of all subsequent advance. In a second section the author traces the quest for significant physical signs, such as examination of the urine, pulse,

Doctors and Disease in Tudor Times (Based upon the Fitzpatrick Lectures for 1958-59 delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London)

Doctors and Disease in Tudor Times (Based upon the Fitzpatrick Lectures for 1958-59 delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London)

Book ReviewAncient Therapeutic Arts: The Fitzpatrick Lectures delivered in 1950 and 1951 at the Royal College of Physicians.

Book ReviewAncient Therapeutic Arts: The Fitzpatrick Lectures delivered in 1950 and 1951 at the Royal College of Physicians.

Ancient Therapeutic Arts: The Fitzpatrick Lectures Delivered in 1950 & 1951 at the Royal College of Physicians

Ancient Therapeutic Arts: The Fitzpatrick Lectures Delivered in 1950 & 1951 at the Royal College of Physicians

Ancient Therapeutic Arts: The Fitzpatrick Lectures Delivered in 1950 and 1951 at the Royal College of Physicians

Medical Journal of AustraliaVolume 1, Issue 19 p. 688-688 Review Ancient Therapeutic Arts: The Fitzpatrick Lectures Delivered in 1950 and 1951 at the Royal College of Physicians First published: 01 May 1955 https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1955.tb38125.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract Ancient Therapeutic Arts: The Fitzpatrick Lectures Delivered in 1950 and 1951 at the Royal College of Physicians. By William Brockbank, M.A., M.D. (Cambridge), F.R.C.P.; 1954. London: William Heinemann (Medical Books), Limited. 10″ × 6½″, pp. 162, with 88 illustrations. Price: 25s. Volume1, Issue19May 1955Pages 688-688 RelatedInformation

Medicine in Oxford: A Historical Romance: The Fitzpatrick Lectures for 1952–53, Delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London

Medicine in Oxford: A Historical Romance: The Fitzpatrick Lectures for 1952–53, Delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London

Book Reviews

Book Reviews MAJOR GREENWOOD. Medical Statistics from Graunt to Farr. (The Fitzpatrick Lectures for the years 1941 and 1943, delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London in February 1943.) Cambridge, At the University Press, 1948. 73 pp.$2.00. GEORGE ROSEN GEORGE ROSEN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume V, Issue Spring, Spring 1950, Page 226, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/V.Spring.226 Published: 01 March 1950

Reviews and Notes of Books : The History of State Medicine in England, being the Fitzpatrick Lectures of the Royal College of Physicians of London for the years 1946 and 1947, by Sir Arthur Salusbury MacNalty

Reviews and Notes of Books : The History of State Medicine in England, being the Fitzpatrick Lectures of the Royal College of Physicians of London for the years 1946 and 1947, by Sir Arthur Salusbury MacNalty

THE HISTORY OF STATE MEDICINE IN ENGLAND: Being the FitzPatrick Lectures of the Royal College of Physicians of London for the Years 1946 and 1947. By Sir ArthurSalusbury MacNalty, K.C.B., M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S. Published By The Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene, 28, Portland Place, London, W.1. 1948. 7 × 9¾. pp.83. Price 12s. 6d. (post free).

THE HISTORY OF STATE MEDICINE IN ENGLAND: Being the FitzPatrick Lectures of the Royal College of Physicians of London for the Years 1946 and 1947. By Sir ArthurSalusbury M<scp>ac</scp>N<scp>alty</scp>, K.C.B., M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S. Published By The Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene, 28, Portland Place, London, W.1. 1948. 7 × 9¾. <i>pp.</i>83. Price 12s. 6d. (post free).

Dr. T. W. King (1809–47)

THOMAS WILKINSON KING, who died of pulmonary tuberculosis on March 26, 1847, may without undue straining of the phrase be hailed as the 'father of endocrinology'. Such an appellation is justified by his paper “On the Structure and Function of the Thyroid Gland” (Guy's Hospital Reports, 1, 429 ; 1836), in which he described the colloid secretion of the thyroid and which is remarkable for this prophetic sentence : “We may one day be able to show that a particular material is slowly formed and partially kepi in reserve, and that this principle is also supplementary, when poured into the descending cava, to important functions in the course of the circulation”. This original article remained almost completely forgotten until it was rescued from obscurity by Sir Humphry Rolleston (Fitzpatrick Lectures, 1933). The son of a medical practitioner at Dover, at the age of sixteen King entered Guy's Hospital, on October 4, 1824. In 1837 he succeeded Thomas Hodgkin as curator of the museum and lecturer on morbid anatomy, assuming the additional lectureship on comparative anatomy and physiology three years later. As a lecturer he was not popular, for he was a poor speaker and inclined to be over the head of the average student. A tireless worker, he founded his many novel theories on clinical observations which he verified experimentally. On December 11, 1843, King became one of the original fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He was then practising at 36 Bedford Square, London ; it is recorded that “Though young, he had an aged, worn look”, and a perpetual cough.

A HISTORY Or TROHICAL. Medical Based on The Fitzpatrick Lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London 1937− 31;. (In two volumes.)

A HISTORY Or TROHICAL. Medical Based on The Fitzpatrick Lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London 1937− 31;. (In two volumes.)

A History of Tropical Medicine

THESE volumes contain a history of tropical medicine, using that term in its ordinary wide sense. Starting with the Navy and Mercantile Marine, they tell of the dreadful conditions in which seamen lived a hundred and fifty years ago, whether in or out of the tropics, and the still worse quality of the men haled into the Navy by the press gang, so bad indeed that it was not humanity but their quality, their cost, and the effect on the nation that brought pressing to an end just over a hundred years ago. The steady advance in the Army's health in the last hundred years comes out strongly, and the same lesson is seen in the chapters on the Colonies, Protectorates and Dominions, and on India. The main part of the book is taken up with disease caused by organisms and food; and the chapter on plague is an excellent example of its scope and outlook. A History of Tropical Medicine Based on the FitzPatrick Lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London, 1937–8. By H. Harold Scott. Vol. 1. Pp. xix + 648 + 3 plates. Vol. 2. Pp. iv + 649–1165 + plates 4–13. (London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1939.) 50s. net.

The History of British Midwifery from 1650 to 1800: the Fitz-Patrick Lectures for 1927, delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London

The History of British Midwifery from 1650 to 1800: the Fitz-Patrick Lectures for 1927, delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London

The History of British Midwifery from 1650 to 1800. The Fitzpatrick Lectures for 1927 Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians of London.

The History of British Midwifery from 1650 to 1800. The Fitzpatrick Lectures for 1927 Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians of London.

The FitzPatrick Lectures on the History of British Midwifery (1650-1800)

The FitzPatrick Lectures on the History of British Midwifery (1650-1800)

(1) History of Medicine (2) The Evolution of Anatomy: a Short History of Anatomical and Physiological Discovery to Harvey; being the Substance of the Fitzpatrick Lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London in the Years 1923 and 1924

WE have had to wait a long time for the second instalment of Prof. Neuburger's “History of Medicine”: but it is well worth waiting for. Even though it is only a part of the second volume that he gives us now, it covers the most interesting and romantic phase of the history, a period that few writers could have interpreted with such competence and recognised authority. (1) History of Medicine. (Oxford Medical Publications.) By Prof. Dr. Max Neuburger. Translated by Ernest Playfair. In two vols. Vol. 2. Part I. Pp. viii + 135. (London: Oxford University Press, 1925.) 7s. 6d. net. (2) The Evolution of Anatomy: a Short History of Anatomical and Physiological Discovery to Harvey; being the Substance of the Fitzpatrick Lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London in the Years 1923 and 1924. By Dr. Charles Singer. Pp. xii + 210 + 22 plates. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1925.) 12s. 6d. net.