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Henry Lonsdale
(1812 - 23 Jul 1876)
English physician and author who studied medicine and began his career in Edinburgh, Scotland, for a few years. In 1841, he was appointed physician to the Royal Public Dispensary, where for the first time in Edinburgh, he introduced the use of cod-liver oil. He returned to his hometown of Carlisle in 1845, and became physician to the Cumberland infirmary for 22 years (1846-68). In later life he took up writing books of biographies.
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Science Quotes by Henry Lonsdale (1 quote)
As pilgrimages to the shrines of saints draw thousands of English Catholics to the Continent, there may be some persons in the British Islands sufficiently in love with science, not only to revere the memory of its founders, but to wish for a description of the locality and birth-place of a great master of knowledge—John Dalton—who did more for the world’s civilisation than all the reputed saints in Christendom.
— Henry Lonsdale
In The Worthies of Cumberland (1874), 25.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
