Thomas Scott Lambert (May 22, 1819 - March 31, 1897) was an American physician. Lambert was born in

Wakefield, Massachusetts Wakefield is a New England town, town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston, greater Boston metropolitan area, municipal corporation, incorporated in 1812 in the United States, 1812 and located about north-nor ...

and was educated in medicine at

Castleton, Vermont Castleton is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States. Castleton is about to the west of Rutland, the county's seat and most populous city, and about east of the New York/Vermont state border. The town had a population of 4,458 at the ...

, where he took his M. D. in 1845. He lectured extensively on medical and educational themes and wrote a number of books. Dr. Lambert died from pneumonia in 1897, aged 78.

Works (selected)

* ''Hygienic Physiology'' (1852, Sanborn and Carter) * ''Systematic Human Physiology, Anatomy and Hygiene: Second Edition'' * ''On Alcohol: A Course of Six Cantor Lectures Delivered Before the Society of Arts'' (with Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson) * ''Human Anatomy, Physiology And Hygiene'' * ''A Description of the Newly-Invented Elastic Tourniquet, for the Use of Armies and Employment in Civil Life: Its Uses and Applications, With Remarks on ... Gunshot and Other Wounds'' * ''Sources of longevity : its indications and practical applications : part I, part II. 1869'' * ''Longevity, Part 2'' (with John Hoskins Griscom) * ''Bathing and the Bath, Simple and Medicated: Its History, Effect and Mode of Application, with a Particular Description of the Patent Toilet Bath''

References

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