“Like a Devoted Army”: Medicine, Heroic Masculinity, and the Military Paradigm in Victorian Britain
Journal: Journal of British Studies
Year: 2010

the Lancet carried a notice announcing the death of the physician Jordan Roche Lynch at his house in Farringdon Street, London. Lynch, who was only thirty-eight, had died of a severe inflammation of the throat, the result of a typhus fever contracted in the course of his work with the sick poor of the West London Union. He left, the report stated, "a widow and young family to deplore his untimely death." 1 In the following weeks, Lynch's friends and fellow sanitary reformers arranged a subscript