RICHARDSON, Sir Benjamin Ward (1828 – 1896)
1828 – 1896
7 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1858 CE
#5666
On chloroform and other anaesthetics: Their action and administration. Edited, with a memoir of the author, by Benjamin W. Richardson.
Snow, the first specialist in anesthesiology, delivered Queen Victoria with the aid of chloroform in 1853 and 1857. This work was edited for publication after Snow's premature death by Richardson, who included a biogr…
1876 CE
#9527
Diseases of modern life.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1876 CE
#9316
Hygeia: A city of health.
Imaginative outline for an utopian city of 100,000 people which Richardson, as public health reformer, hoped would reduce mortality to five per thousand in two generations. Includes details of the laying out of street…
1879 CE
#10397
On health and occupation. Manuals of Health. Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1887 CE
#1625
The health of nations: A review of the works of Edwin Chadwick, with a biographical dissertation by Benjamin Ward Richardson. 2 vols.
Chadwick may be said to have initiated the public health era. Largely through his efforts the Public Health Act 1848 came into existence in England. He was the greatest sanitarian of the 19th century; among other thin…
1896 CE
#10836
Biological experimentation: Its function and limits.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1900 CE
#6721
Disciples of Aesculapius, with a life of the author by his daughter, Mrs. George Martin. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.