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Joseph Brandreth
Joseph Brandreth M.D. (1745 – 10 April 1815) was an 18th-century English medical practitioner, who served as Physician to the Duke of Gloucester. He was born at Ormskirk, Lancashire, in 1745. After taking a doctorate of Medicine at Edinburgh in 1770, where his thesis, ''De Febribus intermittentibus,'' was published, Brandreth exercised his profession in his native town until about 1776, when he succeeded to the practice of Matthew Dobson, in Liverpool, on Dr Dobson's retirement to Bath. He was appointed to the staff of the Infirmary in 1780, and was the first doctor in Liverpool to realise the value of applying cold water on fever. This remedy was described by Brandreth in a paper entitled ''On the Advantages arising from the Topical Application of Cold Water and Vinegar in Typhus and On the Use of Large Doses of Opium in certain cases''. He practised in Liverpool for the remainder of his life, and became an eminently successful and popular practitioner. He was a man of wide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medical Household
The Medical Household is the medical part of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. Overview Current roles include a Personal Doctor to the King and Queen, Physician to the King, a Serjeant Surgeon, Apothecaries to the King, Occulist to the King, Dentist to the King, Orthopaedic Surgeon to the King and Surgeon Gynaecologist to the Queen. There are also a number of appointments of physicians and surgeons to other members of the Royal Household. These include Apothecaries to all the Royal Households at Buckingham Palace, Windsor, Sandringham, Balmoral, Palace of Holyrood and Highgrove. A travelling physician accompanies Their Majesties on overseas tours. Medical arrangements at Buckingham Palace are overseen by a Chief Nursing Officer. Parity of respect is an important principle underlying the Household's work, with GPs, specialists, nurses and allied professionals working as equals within an integrated team. Honorary positions Eminent physicians and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preston, Lancashire
Preston () is a city on the north bank of the River Ribble in Lancashire, England. The city is the administrative centre of the county of Lancashire and the wider City of Preston, Lancashire, City of Preston local government district. Preston and its surrounding district obtained City status in the United Kingdom, city status in 2002, becoming England's 50th city in the 50th year of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II's reign. Preston had a population of 147,800 at the 2021 census, the City of Preston district 156,411 in 2023 and the Preston Built-up Area 313,322. The Preston Travel To Work Area, in 2011, had a population of 420,661, compared with 354,000 in the previous census. The south bank of the Ribble is part of the Preston urban area, although it forms the South Ribble borough that is administratively separate. Preston and its surrounding area have provided evidence of ancient Roman Britain, Roman activity, largely in the form of a Roman road that led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Lancashire
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1815 Deaths
Events January * January 2 – Lord Byron marries Anne Isabella Byron, Baroness Byron, Anna Isabella Milbanke in Seaham, county of Durham, England. * January 3 – Austrian Empire, Austria, United Kingdom, Britain, and Bourbon-restored France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia. * January 8 – Battle of New Orleans: American forces led by Andrew Jackson defeat British forces led by Sir Edward Pakenham. American forces suffer around 60 casualties and the British lose about 2,000 (the battle lasts for about 30 minutes). * January 13 – War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state. * January 15 – War of 1812: Capture of USS President, Capture of USS ''President'' – American frigate , commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates. February * February 3 – The first commercial cheese fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1745 Births
Events January–March * January 7 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Austrian Army, under the command of Field Marshal Károly József Batthyány, makes a surprise attack at Amberg and the winter quarters of the Bavarian Army, and scatters the Bavarian defending troops, then captures the Bavarian capital of Munich. * January 8 – The Quadruple Alliance treaty is signed at Warsaw by Great Britain, Austria, the Dutch Republic and the Duchy of Saxony. * January 20 – Less than two weeks after the disastrous Battle of Amberg leaves Bavaria undefended, the electorate's ruler (and Holy Roman Emperor) Charles VII dies from gout at the age of 47, leaving the duchy without an adult to lead it. His 17-year-old son, Maximilian III Joseph, signs terms of surrender in April. * February 22 – The ruling white colonial government on the island of Jamaica foils a conspiracy by about 900 black slaves, who had been plotting to seize control and to massa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of St Peter And St Paul, Ormskirk
The Church of St Peter and St Paul is in the market town of Ormskirk, Lancashire, England. Dating from no later than the 12th century, it is one of only three churches in England to have both a tower and spire, and the only one to have them both at the same end of the church. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Liverpool. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. History The exact date of the foundation of a church in Ormskirk is unclear, although it is likely that there was a church on the site of the present one in Saxon time. The Anglican parish of Ormskirk encompassed the settlements of Lathom, Burscough, Bickerstaffe, Scarisbrick and Skelmersdale. Parts of the present church existed in the 12th century, although the building has been altered and added to over successive centuries. The earliest part of the building is the north wall of the chancel, which dates from c. 1170 and conta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memorial Tablet
A spirit tablet, memorial tablet, or ancestral tablet is a placard that people used to designate the seat of a deity or past ancestor as well as to enclose it. The name of the deity or the past ancestor is usually inscribed onto the tablet. With origins in traditional Chinese culture, the spirit tablet is a common sight in many East Asian countries, where forms of ancestor veneration are practiced. Spirit tablets are traditional ritual objects commonly seen in temples, shrines, and household altars throughout mainland China and Taiwan. General usage A spirit tablet is often used for deities or ancestors (either generally or specifically: e.g. for a specific relative or for one's entire family tree). Shrines are generally found in and around households (for household gods and ancestors), in temples for specific deities, or in ancestral shrines for the clan's founders and specific ancestors. In each place, there are specific locations for individual spirit tablets for ancestors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ormskirk District General Hospital
Ormskirk and District General Hospital is an acute hospital in Ormskirk, Lancashire. It is managed by the Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. History The hospital has its origins in the Ormskirk Union Workhouse Infirmary which was established in 1853. It became the County Hospital and Institution in the 1930s and, after joining the National Health Service The National Health Service (NHS) is the term for the publicly funded health care, publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom: the National Health Service (England), NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and Health and Social Care (Northern ... in 1948, it went on to become Ormskirk County Hospital in the 1950s and subsequently Ormskirk and District General Hospital. References NHS hospitals in England Hospitals in Lancashire Hospitals in England {{NHS-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Physician
A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Medical diagnosis, diagnosis, prognosis and therapy, treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments. Physicians may focus their practice on certain disease categories, types of patients, and methods of treatment—known as Specialty (medicine), specialities—or they may assume responsibility for the provision of continuing and comprehensive medical care to individuals, families, and communities—known as general practitioner, general practice. Medical practice properly requires both a detailed knowledge of the Discipline (academia), academic disciplines, such as anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, underlying diseases, and their treatment, which is the science of medicine, and a decent Competence (human resources ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consultant (medicine)
In the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, and parts of the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth, consultant is the title of a senior hospital-based physician or surgeon who has completed all of their Medical specialist, specialist training and been placed on the specialist register in their chosen speciality. The primary objective of a consultant is to use expert knowledge and skill to diagnose and treat patients and ultimate clinical responsibility for their care. A physician must be on the Specialist Register before they may be employed as a substantive consultant in the National Health Service (NHS). This usually entails holding a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in any of the recognised specialities, but academics with substantial publications and international reputation may be exempted from this requirement, in the expectation that they will practice at a tertiary level. "Locum consultant" appointments of limited duration may be given to those with cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Much Woolton Old School
Much Woolton Old School is a small Grade II* listed building on School Lane in Woolton, Liverpool, United Kingdom. An inscription on the building's exterior claims it to be the "oldest elementary school building in Lancashire" and built in 1610, though the date of construction has not been independently verified. It ceased to be used as a school in the mid 19th century. Since 1990, the building has been used as a nursery. History Date of construction Externally, on the lintel above the building's main door, is a stone inscription which reads, "Much Woolton Old School, the oldest 610elementary school building in Lancashire". Much doubt has been cast on this date being the exact year of construction – it may have been built earlier or later than what the engraving suggests. The statement was not inscribed until ~1925 under the instruction of the local rector, George Howson. Sources assert that whilst the "161" was original, he had the "0" added "arbitrarily" when the inscripti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
