Show CURIOUS RITS BITS OF HISTORY by W A MACY THE discoverer OF BRIGHTS DISEASE it is not often that a man succeeds in giving his name to a 2 disease as did dr richard bright he was not a great man nor a great physician yet his career Is an illustration of what may be accomplished by persistence and hard work he was born in bristol england in 1789 after graduating in medicine he set up practice in london he was very studious and made a thorough study of the kidneys collecting and recording an immense amount of ol information relating thereto he visited many on the continent always observing and noting after the battle of waterloo he assisted in caring for the wounded in the hospitals of brussels he was the first to point out the nature of the disease of the kidneys then little understood from which so many people were dying every year he devoted so much time to the subject and studied the disease so carefully and minutely that it came to be called by his name his success was due to his diligence and to Us powers of observation As a I 1 rother physician said brogl bright it could not theorize tle orize but he could r are ee 11 wr ps r joseph B howie |