Esprit de Corps
Roy Porter, 21 January 1988
Granville Sharp Pattison: Anatomist and Antagonist 1791-1851
by F.L.M. Pattison.
Canongate, 284 pp., £12.95, October 1987,0 86241 077 0 Show More
by F.L.M. Pattison.
Canongate, 284 pp., £12.95, October 1987,
Death, Dissection and the Destitute
by Ruth Richardson.
Routledge, 426 pp., £19.95, January 1988,0 7102 0919 3 Show More
by Ruth Richardson.
Routledge, 426 pp., £19.95, January 1988,
“... of the melancholy of anatomy advanced by Hunter and Bennet than the vitriolic Granville Sharp Pattison, whose medical career, spanning the first half of the 19th century, went from one acrimonious controversy to another. Born in 1791 the youngest son of a rich Glaswegian merchant, Pattison took up one of the predictable ... ”
