Dr Southwood Smith : A Retrospect Paperback / softback
by Gertrude Hill Lewes
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine series
Paperback / softback
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Thomas Southwood Smith (1788–1861) was a minister, physician and social reformer, who considerably improved the health of the poor by linking sanitation with epidemics.
A utilitarian, and friend of Jeremy Bentham, his arguments in The Use of the Dead to the Living (1827) helped lead to the Anatomy Act of 1832 which allowed corpses from workhouses to be sold to medical schools, and so ended the market for grave-robbers while improving medical education.
Although the fame of his granddaughter, Octavia Hill, has eclipsed his own reputation, Southwood Smith was an important figure in his day, whose work initiated many public health reforms.
He served on the royal commission on children's employment, and was medical representative on the General Board of Health to deal with the cholera epidemic of 1848.
This biography, written by his granddaughter Gertrude, who was G.
H. Lewes' daughter-in-law, was published in 1898.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:204 pages, 8 Plates, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:22/12/2011
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- ISBN:9781108037983
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:204 pages, 8 Plates, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:22/12/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108037983
