The History of Endocrine Surgery

Abstract

However, considering that Elizabeth Garrett qualified in medicine in 1865 and the University of London opened its doors to women in 1878, it is surprising how few women had taken up physiology by 1914.Only Winifred Cullis at the London School of Medicine for Women had achieved the status of head of a department by that time.The author has selected his subjects on the ground that they were either members of the Physiological Society, teachers of physiology, or authors of papers in the Journal ofPhysiology.This would appear to be a tightly-knit group, but it does include a number of people who might be surprised to be recognized as physiologists.Many joined the Physiological Society on their first academic appointment and then left or lost interest when their careers took them elsewhere.Thus the connection of some of the subjects with physiology is very tenuous.But one of the purposes of the Dictionary is to identify all those who made up British physiology, not just those who are well known today and in this respect the author has been assiduous.The book could have been much shorter had it adopted a more telegraphic style, but the author has been allowed to write as he pleases with the result that the entries for such distinguished physiologists as Bayliss, Haldane, Dale, and Starling, amount to full biographies which may in future be quoted as sources.This freedom also allows him to add many serendipitous remarks which add greatly to the enjoyment of the book: McMunn's brother-in-law was Captain Webb, the Channel swimmer

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