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See also:THOMPSON, See also:SIR See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY, See also:BART . (1820-1904), See also:English surgeon, was See also:born at See also:Framlingham, See also:Suffolk, on the 6th of See also:August 182o. His See also:father wished him to enter business, but circumstances ultimately enabled him to follow his own See also:desire of becoming a physician, and in 1848 he entered the medical school of University See also:College, See also:London. There he had a brilliant career, and obtained his degree at London University in 1851 with the highest honours in See also:anatomy and See also:surgery. In 1851 he married See also:Miss Kate Loder, a talented pianist, who, though stricken with See also:paralysis soon afterwards, was always a devoted helpmate to him. In 1853 he was appointed assistant surgeon at University College See also:Hospital, becoming full surgeon in 1863, See also:professor of clinical surgery in 1866, and consulting surgeon in 1874. In 1884 he became professor of surgery and See also:pathology in the Royal College of Surgeons, which in 1852 had awarded him the Jacksonian See also:prize for an See also:essay on the Pathology and Treatment of Stricture of the Urethra, and again in 186o for another on the See also:Health and Morbid Anatomy of the Prostate Gland, These two See also:memoirs indicate the See also:department of medical practice to which he devoted his See also:main See also:attention. Specializing in the surgery of the genito-urinary See also:tract, and in particular in that of the -See also:bladder, he went to See also:Paris to study under Civiale, who in the first See also:quarter of the loth See also:century proved that it is possible to crush a See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone within the human bladder, and after his return he soon acquired a high reputation as a skilful operator in that
lass of disease. In 1863, when the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the Belgians was suffering from stone, he was called to See also:Brussels to consult in the See also:case, and after some difficulties was allowed to perform the operation of lithotrity: this was quite successful, and in recognis tion of his skill Thompson was appointed surgeon-extraordinary to the king, an See also:appointment which was continued by See also:Leopold II. Nearly ten years later he carried out a similar operation on the See also:emperor See also:Napoleon, who, however, died four days after the second crushing, not from the surgical interference, as was proved by the See also:post-mortem examination, but from uraemic poisoning. Besides devising various operative improvements in the treat ment of the disorders which were his speciality, Sir Henry Thompson wrote various books and papers dealing with them, including Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Urinary See also:Organs, See also:Practical Lithotomy and Lithotrity, Tumours of the Bladder, Suprapubic Lothotomy, and Preventive Treatment of Calculous Disease. Among other books of a medical See also:character that came from his See also:pen were See also:Food and Feeding, and See also:Diet in Relation to See also:Age and Activity, both of which passed through a number of See also:editions. In 1874 he took a foremost See also:part in See also:founding the See also:Cremation Society of See also:England, of which he was the first See also:president; and not only was he active in urging the advantages of cremation as a means of disposing of the See also:body after See also:death, but also did much towards the removal of the legal restrictions by which it was at first sought to prevent its practice in England. On various occasions he denounced the slackness and inefficiency of the methods of death-certification prevalent in See also:Great See also:Britain, and in 1892 his agitation was instrumental in procuring the appointment of a select See also:committee to inquire into the See also:matter; its See also:report, published in the following See also:year, in great measure confirmed his criticisms and approved the remedies he suggested. But See also:medicine and See also:hygiene by no means exhaust the See also:list of Sir Henry Thompson's activities. In See also:art he was an accomplished sketcher and, moreover, an See also:amateur of See also:painting whose pictures were hung at the Royal See also:Academy and the Paris See also:Salon. About 187o he began to get together his famous collection of See also:china, in particular of old See also:blue and See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:Nanking; this in 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 became so large that he could no longer find See also:room for it, and most of it was sold. A See also:catalogue of it, illustrated by himself and Mr 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 See also:Whistler, was published in 1878. In his famous " octaves " he may be said to have elevated the giving of See also:dinner parties into a See also:fine art. The number of courses and of guests was alike eight, and both were selected with the utmost care and discrimination to promote the " feast of See also:reason and the flow of soul." In literature, in addition to more serious See also:works, he produced two novels—Charley See also:Kingston's Aunt (1885) and All But (1886)—which met with considerable success. In See also:science he became a devotee of See also:astronomy, and for a time maintained a private See also:observatory in his See also:house at Molesey. He further did much to promote astronomical study in Great Britain by presenting See also:Greenwich Observatory with some of the finest See also:instruments now among its equipment, his gifts including a photoheliograph of 9-in. See also:aperture; a 3o-in. reflecting See also:telescope, and a large refracting telescope having an See also:object-See also:glass of 26-in. See also:diameter and a See also:focal length of 221 ft. The offer of the last See also:instrument was made in 1894. Its manufacture was undertaken by Sir See also:Howard Grubb of See also:Dublin, and its erection was completed in 1897. It added greatly to the instrumental resources of Greenwich, especially for photographic See also:work, and its importance may be gauged from the fact that both in aperture and focal length it is See also:double the See also:size of any instrument possessed by the observatory at the time it was put in See also:place. That Sir Henry Thompson, who was knighted in 1867, received a baronetcy in 1899 was probably not unconnected with the presentation of this telescope to the See also:national observatory. Thompson died on the 18th of See also:April 1904. His See also:family consisted of an only son, See also:Herbert, a See also:barrister and well-known egyptologist, who succeeded to the baronetcy, and two daughters, of whom the See also:elder (author of a valuable Handbook to the Public Picture Galleries of See also:Europe, first published in 1877), married See also:Archdeacon See also:Watkins of See also:Durham, and the younger married the Rev. H. de Candole.
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