Sir Samuel Wilks ( 1824 – 1911 ) : ‘ The Most Philosophical of English Physicians ’
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This paper retells some of the achievements and personal attributes of Sir Samuel Wilks, one of the great Guy’s Hospital physicians and neurologists of the second half of the 19th century. He was a fellow of the Royal Society, president of the Royal College of Physicians, and physician extraordinary to Queen Victoria. A prolific author and original observer of clinical and pathological diseases, he was renowned for his Lectures on Pathological Anatomy, and his original descriptions of syphilis, epilepsy, inflammatory bowel diseases, and myasthenia gravis. Copyright © 2008 S. Karger AG, Basel In the 19th century, Guy’s Hospital could boast many great physicians whose names are still frequently recalled in medical texts. Richard Bright (1789–1858), Thomas Addison (1793–1860) [1] , and Thomas Hodgkin (1798– 1866) had their names and clinical discoveries perpetuated in familiar eponyms. They were contemporaries for 12 years from 1825 to 1837, and became known as ‘the three great men of Guy’s’. In their wake, less famed, but of comparable stature, was Samuel Wilks. All four Guy’s physicians excelled in a wide range of general medical illnesses, but Bright and Wilks, like Osler, also concerned themselves with diseases of the nervous system. Received: January 23, 2008 Accepted: January 28, 2008 Published online: December 9, 2008 J.M.S. Pearce 304 Beverley Road Anlaby, East Yorks HU10 7BG (UK) © 2008 S. Karger AG, Basel 0014–3022/09/0612–0119$26.00/0 Accessible online at: www.karger.com/ene 1 Headquarters of The Honourable East India Company, given a Royal Charter by Queen Elizabeth 1st in 1600. Sited at Leadenhall Street, London, it was rebuilt in 1799–1800, and demolished in 1929. D ow nl oa de d by : 54 .7 0. 40 .1 1 11 /1 5/ 20 17 1 0: 32 :0 1 A M
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