Quotes:Richardson, Benjamin Ward

Zirkoff, Boris

Richardson, Sir Benjamin Ward. English physician, b. at Somerby, Leicestershire, Oct. 31, 1828; d. in London, Nov. 21, 1896. Educated at Anderson College, Glasgow, and St. Andrews Univ. Removed to London, 1855, and for three years was lecturer on medical jurisprudence at the School of Medicine in Grosvenor Place, and until 1865 lecturer on physiology. Especially interested in sanitary reform and methods of anaesthesia, bringing into use some fourteen different anaesthetics. Constructed lethal chamber for the humane extinction of the life of animals. Discovered the properties of amyl nitrite. Was strong advocate of total abstinence from alcohol. Aside from scientific writings, wrote biographies, plays and poems. Chief works: Diseases of Modern Life, 1876.—National Health, 1890.—The Field of Disease. London: Macmillan & Co., 1883.—Disciples of Aesculapius (with a biographical sketch by his daughter). London: Hutchinson & Co., 1900.—The Asclepiad—series of original researches in the science, art and literature of medicine, which appeared quarterly, 1884–95.—*Theory of the Nervous Ether. No. 13 of Half-Hour Recreations in Popular Science. First Series. Selected and ed. by Dana Estes. Boston, 1874.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 9, p. 450