Isaac Burney Yeo

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Isaac Burney Yeo (* 1835 in East Stonehouse (now Plymouth ), † 1914 in London ) was an English medic.

After practical training with a doctor in his hometown, Yeo studied medicine at King's College London from 1858 . He won a gold medal in his master’s degree from the University of London . He got a job at Hampshire County Hospital and became a doctor at Westminster General Dispensary . From 1865 he taught at King's College, and in 1869 he became an assistant doctor at King's College Hospital . He also worked for ten years at Brompton Hospital for Diseases of the Chest .

In 1876 Yeo received a full doctor's position at King's College Hospital, from 1885 he was Professor of Clinical Therapeutics, from 1896 until his retirement in 1900 Professor of Medicine at King's College. In the 1890s, he introduced an inhaler that was in use until the 1960s. In 1893 the first of several editions of his Manual of Medical Treatment appeared . Writings such as Food in Health and Disease and The Therapeutics of Mineral Springs and Climates were popular .

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  • Notes of a Season at St. Moritz in the Upper Engadine, and of a Visit to the Baths of Tarasp , Longmans, Green, and Co 1870
  • Remarkable Case of Abscess of the Dura Mater and Brain, Following a Blow on the Head: A Clinical Lecture , British Medical Association, 1879
  • The contagiousness of pulmonary consumption and its antiseptic treatment: two lectures delivered in King's College Hospital in the summer session of 1882, with appendices and notes Churchill 1882
  • Food in Health an Disease , 1890
  • Manual of Medical Treatment; Or, Clinical Therapeutics , Cassell 1893
  • Climate and Health Resorts
  • The Results of Recent Researches in the Treatment of Phthisis

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SURNAME Yeo, Isaac Burney
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English medic
DATE OF BIRTH 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Plymouth
DATE OF DEATH 1914
Place of death London