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Excerpt from Pioneers of Science in America: Sketches of Their Lives and Scientific Work Benjamin silliman, the elde'r Portrait after a photograph coloured in oil belonging to his family. 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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Excerpt from The Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 39: May to October, 1891 His thought was passed on to the School of Alexandria, and there medical science was developed yet further, especially by such men as Herophilus and Erasistratus. Under their lead studies in human anatomy began by dissection; the old prejudice which had weighed so long upon the human race, preventing that method of anatomical investigation without which there can be no real results, was cast aside apparently forever. 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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Youmans was born on October 14, 1838 in Milton, New York, the youngest son of Vincent and Catherine (Scofield) Youmans. During his youth his brother, Edward Livingston Youmans, was winning success as a textbook writer and lecturer on science.
Youmans attended district schools until 1855, and made final preparation for college at Fort Edward Academy. He studied first under Charles A. Joy at Columbia, then at Yale (1860-1861), where the first American doctorates in philosophy were conferred that year by the Sheffield Scientific School, and took a degree in medicine at the University of the City of New York (later New York University) in 1865. Physiology and chemistry were his chief interests.
The year after receiving his degree Youmans went abroad, chiefly to study in London with Thomas Huxley. Immediately upon his return he prepared for publication The Elements of Physiology and Hygiene: a Text-Book for Educational Institutions (1868) by Huxley, which had been entrusted to him by the author for adaptation "to the circumstances and requirements of American education". Besides some teaching aids he added seven chapters on hygiene. When this task was completed, he began the practice of medicine at Winona, Minnesota. He returned to New York about three years later when his brother projected the Popular Science Monthly. He was actively engaged on that journal from the first number in May 1872 and was sole editor after his brother's death (1887) until it was sold in 1900, when he retired. His chief literary work was done upon this magazine. Every month for many years, under the heading, "Editor's Table, " he wrote two or more articles on scientific progress, scientific education, and the application of science to practical, intellectual, and moral advance. He was, like his brother, an exponent of the evolution philosophy of Herbert Spencer, and both Spencer and Huxley wrote for him. A special feature of his editorship was the publication each month of the biography of a leading American or European scientist or teacher of science. The sketches, which are of permanent value, were nearly all from his pen. About fifty of them were republished under the title, Pioneers of Science in America (1896). Beyond the covers of the Monthly he also for twenty years (1880-1900) contributed to Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia, preparing for each issue four major articles on the year's advances in chemistry, metallurgy, meteorology, and physiology, besides occasional miscellaneous articles. As an editorial writer he was vigorous, outspoken, not afraid of controversy and frequently involved in it, for his ideas were often not the accepted ones. In the hills near Mount Vernon, New York, he had a farm from which he expected to derive a great deal of pleasure in his retirement; but within a year an attack of typhoid fever ended his life on April 10, 1901.
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Youmans was married to Celia Greene of Galway, New York, on August 2, 1866. To them were born two sons and two daughters.
