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Smith, Sir James Edward - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Sir James Edward Smith, 13 Chapel Place, Cavendish Square, [London], to Pleasance Smith, at Mrs E Clarke's, Saxmundham, Suffolk
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    Co-Authors: Smith, Sir James Edward
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    Plants for lectures supplied by [Edward] Forster's garden and Loddige's [nursery]. Finished on Thursday to a "thunder of applause"; paid 100 guineas. Visited Horticultural Society gardens and spent pleasant time with [John] Lindley [(1799-1865), botanist], showing that their quarrel is "more than made up". Often breakfasts at the Menzies. [Samuel] Goodenough approves of next fasciculus of "Flora Graeca". Disappointed by Bullock's Mexican curiosities. Met Sir Astley Cooper at Saville Onley's, he continually reads his "Introduction to Botany". A party at the Blackwells; George Blackwell leaving the country for 2 years. His health generally better but his old complaint increased; Dr Davy prescribes Ipecacuanla with Laudanum. Attempted and failed to get [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert to be accommodating regarding Linnean Society chair

  • James Edward Smith, Edinburgh, to James Smith
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    Co-Authors: Smith, Sir James Edward
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    Shall follow his mother's directions to not attend any funerals, though that danger small compared to "what every medical man must be often exposed to", believing that every day people are exposed to abundant sources of infection but their constitutions are "seldom in a state to receive it". In daily expectation of his medal [given by Dr John Hope for best Scottish herbarium]. Proposes to be in London next winter, and will go to Norwich first in June. Afraid last change in Ministry will renew the war. Does not think Scotland has enough spirit to be independent. Has been confined with diarrhea but cured with castor oil and butter, and Laudanum and rhubarb. His dissatisfaction at enquiries into the Theory and Practice of Physic; believes medicine is in "the most barbarous condition of any science, & only now emerging from the greatest darkness & absurdity"; practitioner commonly state that theory is nothing and practice everything; Cullen's and Browne's lessons; accounts of Medical Society debates put into newspapers, violently incensing the orthodox men, conflict between Brunonians and Cullenians. On his recommendation Dr Broussonet of Montpelier, [France], whom he was with at Carlisle, was unanimously elected an honorary member of the Medical Society; Broussonet has offered in return to gain Smith's admittance to French academies, will also gain Broussonet admittance to Natural History and Philosophical Societies. Sends his father copy of letter received from Lord Buchan on being admitted an honorary member of the Natural History Society. Encloses seed of 'Alsa foetida', given by Dr Hope from only plant of the kind in Europe, in Edinburgh Botanic Garden, to be given to Mr Ives; also sending to Mr Jackson, [James] Crowe, and [Thomas] Woodward; history of the plant. Recently attended Assembly Ball

Forster, Thomas Furly - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Thomas Furly Forster, London, to Sir James Edward Smith
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    Co-Authors: Forster, Thomas Furly
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    Expects Smith on 30 April. Suffering from insomnia, which he treats with Laudanum, and is never well. Approves of [Thomas] Hare's dedication to Smith ["Considerations on the Structure, Functions, and Disorders of the Stomach and Alimentary Organs of the Human Body..." (1821)]; his opinion of Hare. Though he has not seen Correa for a while does not believe he has left

Catherine Peters - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins
    2014
    Co-Authors: Catherine Peters
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    In this major biography, Catherine Peters explores the complicated life of Wilkie Collins, the greatest of the Victorian "Sensation" novelists and author of the famous "Woman in White" and "The Moonstone." An intimate of Dickens and of the Pre-Raphaelites Holman Hunt and Millais, Collins was called the "king of inventors" by his publisher. On the surface, he was charming, unpretentious, and extremely good company, beloved by men and women. Beneath this facade, however, he was a complex and haunted man, addicted to Laudanum, and his powerful, often violent novels revealed a dark side of Victorian life. He supported two common-law wives and their children, and as Peters shows, he provoked scandal by refusing to cloak his complicated love affairs in the customary hypocritical pretense of the period.Having discovered a hitherto unknown autobiography by Wilkie Collins's mother, Peters draws on this document and on thousands of Collins's unpublished letters to create this provocative picture of his life and times. She describes in detail the saga of his exhausting struggle for better copyright protection for authors, especially for English authors in the United States. She has also studied the manuscripts of his novels, plays, and stories, including those which he did not complete, finding that some of his neglected novels turn out to be much more interesting than most readers realize today. This edition of the book has been supplemented to include an appendix describing Collins's "Tahitian" novel. Written when he was twenty, the manuscript of this work, "Iolani," was thought to have disappeared, but it has recently been rediscovered and sold to a private collector. For any Collins enthusiast, or for anyone interested in the literary history of the Victorian period, "The King of Inventors" provides a vivid account of Collins's unusual personal life in the context of his literary and artistic friendships and of newly revealed facts about the two women with whom he shared his "double life."Originally published in 1993.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905."

Jane C. Ballantyne - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain
    Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America, 2015
    Co-Authors: Jane C. Ballantyne
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    pium is a bitter, brown, granular powder derived from the seedpod of the poppy ( Papaver somniferum ). People have used opium for the relief of pain and suffering for thousands of years. Before the 19th century, opium was cultivated and used chiefly in the Middle East, whereas in Europe and the United States it was a luxury available mainly to the elite. During the 19th century, several historical events conspired to make opium and other opioids more readily available. The production of opium increased rapidly, and after the morphine alkaloid was identified in 1806 pharmacologic production of opioid drugs began. Use of morphine-containing tinctures such as Laudanum became commonplace, especially in the treatment of the “travails” and “boredom” of Victorian women. Morphine-containing cures for colic, diarrhea, dysmenorrhea, and other painful conditions were widely available and could be bought from doctors and pharmacists. With the rise of the “street use” of opium and heroin, legal controls were introduced. In the United States, the first attempts to control the abuse of narcotics came at the end of the 19th century, when a few states instituted limited controls. By the 1940s, opioids were so tightly restricted that they could be used legally only when they were prescribed by physicians according to strict regulatory controls. The legal use of opioids was thus placed entirely in the hands of physicians, who were, and still are, liable to lose their medical licenses and risk criminal prosecution if they prescribe these drugs inappropriately. The immediate effect of such strict regulatory control was that physicians became reluctant to prescribe opioids, and as a result pain was woefully undertreated. 1 Through the efforts of advocates of pain control, toward the end of the 20th century opioid therapy was reestablished as an invaluable and accepted treatment for acute pain, pain due to cancer, and pain caused by a terminal disease. The most difficult issue now facing physicians who treat patients with chronic pain probably is whether and how to prescribe opioid therapy for chronic pain that is not associated with terminal disease, including pain experienced by the increasing number of patients with cancer in remission who need long-term opioid therapy. Many of the issues involved in the treatment of patients with pain due to cancer in remission are the same as those in the treatment of patients with chronic pain that is unrelated to malignant conditions. Our review addresses specific questions about dose and toxicity in the light of recent studies that suggest a need to modify current practices in the use of opioid therapy for chronic pain.