An Imponderable Liberator: J.J. Garth Wilkinson

Abstract

This chapter focuses on someone who may be unique among his class of medicators: from shortly after qualifying with the then-customary abbreviations (Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Licentiate of the Apothecaries Society) in 1834 till shortly before his death in 1899, he was the most vocally sympathetic of legally-qualified practitioners towards plebeian and other unorthodox medicators. Around the 1830s, as we shall see, both they and he seem to have been confident that they would soon lay siege to orthodoxy — despite, and partly because of, the growing exclusiveness and assertiveness of medicine as a profession. By 1899, the position was more complex: the plebeians and unorthodox were outflanked, if not besieged. Thus Wilkinson’s involvement in and around medicine turned into a rearguard action against the advance of orthodoxy. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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