ABSTRACT
The author hopes that the presentation of a series of case studies of William Harvey, Walter Charleton, John Ward, Daniel Turner, William Hunter and John Hunter has shown the boundaries and rules of how to behave. James Moore, an army surgeon and former pupil of John Hunter, denounced the absurd opinion entertained by some people, that a certain degree of cruelty is requisite to enable a man to perform surgical operations. Forensic pathologist Professor Bernard Knight had performed nearly 30,000 autopsies in his career. Hardening or dampening emotions led to heightened perception, knowledge, rationality and a new sensibility dispassion. Ludmilla Jordanova rightly states, medical practice is visual at its heart'. To understand it we must study how looking shapes virtually all aspects of medicine', Locating Medical History.
