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Thomas Wakley

Thomas Wakley (11 July 1795 – 16 May 1862) was an English surgeon. He gained fame as a social reformer who campaigned against incompetence, privilege and nepotism. He was the founding editor of The Lancet, a radical Member of Parliament (MP) and a celebrated coroner.

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Thomas Wakley

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Thomas Wakley (11 July 1795 – 16 May 1862) was an English surgeon. He gained fame as a social reformer who campaigned against incompetence, privilege...

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Thomas Henry Wakley

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Thomas Henry Wakley (21 March 1821 – 5 April 1907) was an English surgeon and journalist. Wakley was the eldest son of Thomas Wakley. He was born in London...

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John Elliotson

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and had her both diagnose and prescribe treatments. In August 1838, Thomas Wakley conducted a series of experiments on the sisters in front of several...

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Wakley

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Norman Conquest in 1066. Wakley is the surname of the following people Ralph Wakley (born 1941), American biathlete Thomas Wakley (1795–1862), English surgeon...

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The Lancet

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London, New York City, and Beijing. The Lancet was founded in 1823 by Thomas Wakley, an English surgeon who named it after the surgical instrument called...

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Death of Frederick John White

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however, had learnt of the flogging and alerted the Middlesex coroner Thomas Wakley. Wakley, an opponent of flogging, ordered an inquest and arranged for two...

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Tobacco smoke enema

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Internally, vol. 1, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies Dick, Robert (1847), Thomas Wakley, Surgeon (ed.), "The Treatment of Dyspepsia", The Lancet, vol. 49, no...

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Robert Edmond Grant

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for the supernatural in his account of biology. He was a supporter of Thomas Wakley, The Lancet and the BMA, all of whom were anti-establishment in their...

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Charles Babbage

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in the two-member constituency when two other reformist candidates, Thomas Wakley and Christopher Temple, split the vote. In his memoirs Babbage related...

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Malva sylvestris

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Hiley JS (1841). "On the medical botany of the province of Halifax". In Thomas Wakley (ed.). The Lancet, In Two Volumes (Volume The Second ed.). J. Onwhyn...

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Bedford Square

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publishing company No. 35 Thomas Hodgkin, physician, reformer and philanthropist No. 35 Thomas Wakley, founder of The Lancet No. 36 Thomas Wilkinson King, pathologist...

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Resurrectionists in the United Kingdom

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a relationship first established by kings James IV and Henry VIII. Thomas Wakley, editor of The Lancet, wrote that this lowered "the character of the...

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Body snatching

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Snatchers, Tomar Publishing, Dublin, 1988. ISBN 1-871793-00-9 pp. 14–18 "Thomas Wakley". The Lancet. 147 (3777): 185–7. 1896. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(02)00256-8...

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William Paley

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changed with time. By the 1820s and 1830s, well-known liberals like Thomas Wakley and other radical editors of The Lancet were using Paley's ageing examples...

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1823

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Constitution of 1812. October 5 – Medical journal The Lancet is founded by Thomas Wakley in London. October 22 – Simón Bolívar writes to Paraguayan dictator...

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Kensal Green Cemetery

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Rymer (1814–1884), writer William Vincent Wallace (1812–1865), composer Thomas Wakley (1795–1862), surgeon, campaigner and founder of The Lancet John William...

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History of alternative medicine

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influential supporters, the leading proponent of medical reform, Thomas Wakley. Wakley, the editor of The Lancet, had initially hoped that Elliotson's...

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Charles Thomas Pearce

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he was acquitted of a charge of manslaughter brought by the reformer Thomas Wakley, (an appointed coroner) after his brother David Richard Pearce's death...

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Thomas Rowe Edmonds

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journalism. In The Lancet, and other periodicals edited by Farr and Thomas Wakley, he wrote polemically, in particular against the officials John Rickman...

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Thomas Challis

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Thomas Challis (1 July 1794 – 20 August 1874) was a British businessman and Liberal Party politician who held office as a Member of Parliament and as Lord...

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List of Bermuda Triangle incidents

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popular culture to the Bermuda Triangle or Devil's Triangle. 1945: July 10, Thomas Arthur Garner, AMM3, USN, along with eleven other crew members, was lost...

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Andover workhouse scandal

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issue, but in August 1845, nearly at end of the parliamentary session, Thomas Wakley MP for Finsbury asked the Home Secretary Sir James Graham what the Poor...

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Harefield

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magazine and was responsible for the layout of the garden at Chequers Thomas Wakley (1795–1862), medical and social reformer, and founder of The Lancet...

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