Beschreibung
„My dear Mr. Croker, I hope and think that the variation on your state, described in your last letter, will be temporary only, and that you will soon regain what has been for some time your ordinary condition. It seems to me probable, from your report of yourself, that the heart may sometimes really contract, without contracting with sufficient force to fill the artery at the wrist: so that its actual pulsation […] may be miscounted […]“. – Seit 1826 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, amtierte Thomas Watson von 1862 bis 67 auch als deren Präsident; seit 1859 Fellow der Royal Society und 1866 geadelt, diente er seit 1870 als Hausarzt der Königin Victoria.
