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See also:HINTON, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1822–1875) , See also:English surgeon and author, son of See also:John See also:Howard Hinton (1791–1873), Baptist See also:minister and author of the See also:History and See also:Topography of the See also:United States and other See also:works, was See also:born at See also:Reading in 1822. He was educated at his grandfather's school near See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, and at the See also:Nonconformist school at See also:Harpenden, and in 1838, on his See also:father's removal to See also:London, was apprenticed to a woollen-See also:draper in Whitechapel. After retaining this situation about a See also:year he became clerk in an See also:insurance See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office. His evenings were spent in intense study, and this, joined to the ardour, amounting to morbidness, of his See also:interest in moral problems, so affected his See also:health that in his nineteenth year he resolved to seek See also:refuge from his own thoughts by See also:running away to See also:sea. His intention having, however, been discovered, he was sent, on the See also:advice of the physician who was consulted regarding his health, to St See also:Bartholomew's See also:Hospital to study for the medical profession. After receiving his diploma in 1847, he was for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time assistant surgeon at See also:Newport, See also:Essex, but the same year he went out to Sierra Leone to take medical See also:charge of the See also:free labourers on their voyage thence to See also:Jamaica, where he stayed some time. He returned to See also:England in 1850, and entered into See also:partnership with a surgeon in London, where he soon had his interest awakened specially in aural See also:surgery, and gave also much of his See also:attention to See also:physiology. He made his first See also:appearance as an author in 1856 by contributing papers on physiological and ethical subjects to the See also:Christian Spectator; and in 18J9 he published See also:Man and his Dwelling-See also:place. A See also:series of papers entitled " Physiological See also:Riddles," in the Cornhill See also:Magazine, afterwards published as See also:Life in Nature (1862), as well as another series entitled Thoughts on Health (1871), proved his aptitude for popular scientific exposition. After being appointed aural surgeon to See also:Guy's Hospital in 1863, he speedily acquired a reputation as the most skilful aural surgeon of his See also:day, which was fully See also:borne out by his works, An See also:Atlas of Diseases of the membrana tympani (1874), and Questions of Aural Surgery (1874). But his health See also:broke down, and in 1874 he gave up practice; and he died at the Azores_ of acute inflammation of the See also:brain on the 16th of See also:December 187.
In addition to the works already mentioned, he was the author of The See also:Mystery of See also:Pain (1866) and The Place of the Physician (1874). On See also:account of their fresh and vigorous discussion of many of the important moral and social problems of the time; his writings had a wide circulation on both sides of the See also:Atlantic.
His Life and Letters, edited by See also:Ellice See also:Hopkins, with an introduction by See also:Sir W. W. See also:Gull, appeared in 1878.
End of Article: HINTON, JAMES (1822–1875)
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