Background
Albert King was born on January 18, 1841 in Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, to Dr. Edward and Louisa (Freeman) King. He owed his name Africanus to his father's interest in the colonization of Africa.
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An Essay on the Ligation and Management of the Umbilical Cord at Childbirth (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from An Essay on the Ligation and Management of the Umbilical Cord at Childbirth In an Old edition, I think the first, Of the work already referred to, the author Observes as follows That there is some difference in the structure Of the human cord and that of other animals, is not merely a rational conjecture, but proved by actual Observation. Prof. Brendel, in examining pups and heifers, found their umbilical vessels full Of rugae or folds throughout the whole Of their course, and their size much less also in proportion. In another place the same writer says, that in brutes the vessels Of the cord are much smaller than in man, and that when the animal is born, they are in a measure closed by a kind Of cellular struc ture. From this it appears that m brutes there 1s a peculiar structure Of the vessels Of the cord, tending to interrupt the flow Of blood through them, and favoring their speedy contraction after they have been cut.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Hysteria (Classic Reprint)
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A Manual of Obstetrics
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Dystocia From Short or Coiled Funis, and Its Treatment (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Dystocia From Short or Coiled Funis, and Its Treatment There can be no doubt that it is a very common cause of protracted labor. On the other hand Churchill (p. 108) states that coiling of the cord is alleged to be a cause of difficult labor, owing to the shortening occasioned by it, but this he believes to be wholly imaginary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The Physiological Argument in Obstetric Studies and Practice (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Physiological Argument in Obstetric Studies and Practice I beg to maintain that, in the present age, and among civil ized communities, a case Of perfectly natural labor must be, in great part, a hypothetical case or rather, it must be a case made up, SO to speak, of fragments of normality, some taken from one woman, and some from others, which, when properly put together, reproduce the ideal type of a perfect specimen now almost extinct; just as the archeologist puts together the fossil bones of an extinct animal, and, adding to them what his knowledge teaches him is missing, at last reproduces some ancestral form that has long ceased to exist. When we con sider the numerous influences and disturbing factors which sociai customs impose upon the female, with regard to the whole process of reproduction, we cannot be surprised to find perfectly natural cases extremely rare. And as such disturb ing causes are more frequently present than absent, it cannot by any means be just to judge of normality simply by frequency of occurrence, as is usually done. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Albert Freeman Africanus King
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King's early schooling was obtained in Bichester, near Oxford. With his father, brother and sister he arrived in America, in 1851, members of a colony of immigrants for northern Virginia. He studied medicine at the National Medical College, now the Medical Department of the George Washington University in Washington, where he graduated in 1861. In 1865 he obtained his degree in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania.
Career
About 1861 Albert King selected Haymarket, Virginia as the place to begin his medical practice but he was hardly settled before the Civil War broke and the battle of Bull Run was fought almost at his door. He assisted in the care of the wounded after the battle and later was assigned to the staff of the Lincoln Hospital, on the site of the later Lincoln Park, in Washington. In 1865 he went to Washington to practice medicine. In the same year he was appointed lecturer on toxicology in the National Medical College. In 1870 he was made an assistant in obstetrics and the following year he became professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children. He held this chair until 1904, when the teaching of gynecology and pediatrics was divorced from that of obstetrics, and he was continued in the chair of the latter subject until his death. He thus taught obstetrics for forty-five years at the same school through its many changes of name. He was dean of the faculty from 1879 to 1894. For many years he conducted an "intensive" spring course in obstetrics at the University of Vermont.
His whole teaching career was marked by unvarying routine and method. He brought out his Manual of Obstetrics in 1882. Such was its popularity that he was engaged upon the twelfth edition at the time of his death.
On February 10, 1882, he read before the Philosophical Society of Washington his paper "The Prevention of Malarial Diseases, Illustrating inter alia the Conservative Function of Ague, " and published it in abbreviated form in the Popular Science Monthly of September 1883. In this paper he made a clear and direct statement of his belief in the transmission of malaria by the mosquito and supported his belief by a list of nineteen well-considered and well-presented reasons. He also listed the means of prevention of the mosquito dissemination of the disease, including screening of houses, drainage of swamps and pools, planting of trees, and the destruction of the insects by traps and the burning of pyrethrum. The reading of this notable paper produced little impression upon an audience which was skeptical and unconcerned. L. O. Howard, the distinguished entomologist, who furnished King with the life history of the mosquito, took no stock in the malaria theory, and Dr. J. S. Billings, who heard the paper, could see in the mosquito transmission of the disease nothing more than the chance of a possible accidental inoculation. It was more than a decade before Ross confirmed King's theory, made possible by the discovery of the malarial parasite by Lavaran.
It is only fair to state that King's implication of the mosquito in the transmission of malaria had been antedated by that of Josiah Nott in 1848, and Nott credits Sir Henry Holland with putting forward a similar idea at an earlier date. Never, however, had the case been presented so fully in accordance with the subsequent confirmation. King's credit in this matter would have been better if he had not put forward a number of other scientific hypotheses, usually fantastic, one on the origin of cancer being especially so. He apparently took much to heart the scant hearing accorded to his theories by the local medical societies. He was taken ill in his classroom in Washington and died two days later.
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Albert Freeman Africanus was well known for developing Mosquito-malaria theory and as an author of numerous medical works. His bibliography comprised of eighty-two titles including a number of biographical sketches of medical men. Without question the most notable of his papers was "The Prevention of Malarial Diseases, Illustrating inter alia the Conservative Function of Ague".
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The Physiological Argument in Obstetric Studies and Practice (Classic Reprint)
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An Essay on the Ligation and Management of the Umbilical Cord at Childbirth (Classic Reprint)
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A Manual of Obstetrics
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Dystocia From Short or Coiled Funis, and Its Treatment (Classic Reprint)
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Hysteria (Classic Reprint)
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The Physiological Argument in Obstetric Studies and Practice (Classic Reprint)
Membership
King was one-time president of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia and of the Washington Obstetrical and Gynecological Society.
Personality
King was an interesting, forceful speaker, exceedingly dramatic, but with a fund of good nature and a good sense of humor.
Connections
Albert King married, on October 17, 1894, Ellen A. Dexter of Boston, Massachusetts.
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February 13, 1914 (aged 73) -
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Nationality
American