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The compiler was lecturer on chemistry at Bedford College from 1881 to 1888, and was elected FRS in 1890: he was later Director of the Woburn Experimental Fruit Farm.
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Albert Poisson is described by Caillet, as 'savant alchimiste moderne, né et mort à Paris. Étudiant de médecine'. He wrote several works on Alchemy and translated some ancient alchemical texts. He used the pseudonym 'Philophotos'.
Sir D'Arcy Power was surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital and a distinguished medical historian.
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The author obtained his MD at Edinburgh University in 1811, and then began practice in London. He was a pioneer in physiological and organic chemistry, and lectured at his residence to a small but distinguished audience including Sir Astley Paston Cooper. (See MS.4016.) He was elected FRS in 1819, and FRCP in 1829.
The author's name is given in the 'Préface Au Lecteur' in verse in the first volume: 'Isaac le Pharmacien' in line 23, and 'Quatroux' in line 41. The last line also gives the name of the Scribe, Maillet, 'qui pour Quatroux et plein de passion Son livre ayant escrit avec affection'. Quatroux is the author of a 'Traité de la peste', published in Paris in 1671.
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Stated by the booksellers to have been written by Carmelo Recupero of Catania. No other information given on him.
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Rodati is described in MS.4235 as 'Lettore di Patologia nella Pontificia Universita di Bologna'.
Individuals documented here include: George Rolleston (1829-1881), Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Oxford University, and his wife Grace; His eldest son Sir Humphrey Davy Rolleston KCB (1862-1944), who was President of the Röntgen Society 1922-1923, a younger son was John Davy Rolleston (1873-1946). F.R.S.; His younger son John Davy Rolleston (1873-1946) Physician, who obtained his M.D. at Oxford in 1904. He was appointed Medical Superintendent of the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1926 and was elected F.R.C.P. in 1931.
Donald Mars Morphett Ross was born in 1865 and trained at Edinburgh University, graduating M.B. and C.M in 1888. He was Assistant Medical Superintendent to the Cumberland and Westmorland Asylum before moving to the West Indies, where he was a Medical Officer in Jamaica. In the years prior to the First World War he served as a ship's medical officer in the Far East; during the War he served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He died in 1921.
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The author was MD of Besançon, and in 1759 was appointed Professor of Medicine and Botany at the university in that city.
Professor of Pathology and Surgery at Paris.
Adriaan van Royen was a Dutch physician and botanist, MD at Leyden in 1728, and Professor of Medicine and Botany, from 1732 to 1754. He was the successor of Boerhaave as Director of the Botanical Garden.
The author qualified at Leeds University in 1924, and was pathologist at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford. His signature is found inside the upper cover of the 1935 volume.
The author collaborated with Pierre Curie on radiology in 1902, and discovered corpuscular (electronic) secondary radiation.
The two compilers of these MSS. are the same as those of MS. No. 210 (Consultationes], the later hand may be that of Pierre Rivallier [1644- ],a physician at Nîmes.
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Nikolsburg was in Austria-Hungary; when the area became part of Czechoslovakia it was renamed Nikolov.
William Saunders was physician to Guy's Hospital 1770-1802, and his lectures were very popular [see the Dictionary of National Biography].
Heinrich von Laufenberg was born, 1391; priest in Freiburg (Breisgau), and later dean of the cathedral; entered the cloister of the Knights of St. John, 1445; died, 1460.
Born, 1615; educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA, 1637, MA, 1640) and Merton College, Oxford (MD, 1646); Physician to Charles II, 1660-1683; Physician to James II and William and Mary; Member of Parliament for Camelford in Cornwall, 1685-1687; died, 1694.
Thomas Scattergood was a distinguished surgeon and physician of Leeds, and lectured on chemistry and forensic medicine at the Medical School. In 1884 he became the first Dean of the Medical Faculty when the Yorkshire College was amalgamated with the Medical School, a post which he retained for the rest of his life. [Cf. BMJ, 1900, i, p. 547].
The author is mainly distinguished for his association with the Wiener medicinisches Doctoren- Collegium, of which he became the head. He was later raised to the nobility and became K.K. Ober- Sanitätsrath and K.K. Medicinalrath. His chief publication was the Arzneimittellehre ... des Kindlicher Alters (Vienna, 1857).
Charles Brodie Sewell was born in 1817. He studied at Glasgow University in 1833/34 before beginning his medical studies as an apprentice in 1834. He entered University College Medical School in 1837 and in 1840 obtained his M.B., L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. He practised in London and in 1888/89 was President of the Metropolitan Counties Branch of the British Medical Association. In his mid-seventies he retired to Canterbury and died there in 1900.
Buxton Stilltoe graduated from University College Hospital Medical School, and became FRCS in 1860. He practised at Finsbury Circus, and was surgeon to the London Lock Hospital from 1887 to 1909 [cf BMJ 1917 (1), p. 33].
George Edward Shuttleworth received his medical education at King's College Hospital Medical School, and obtained his MD degree at Heidelberg in 1869. After a short period at Earlswood Asylum, he was appointed Superintendent of the Royal Albert Asylum at Lancaster in 1870, a post which he held for twenty-three years. On retirement in 1893, he devoted himself to the study of insanity, and was particularly interested in the problems of mentally-defective children and their treatment. His important work on that subject was published in 1895, and a fifth edition appeared in 1922. As consultant in London, he was active in the training of personnel for service with the care of these unfortunate children, and was responsible for important changes in the lunacy laws.
Thomas Hookham Silvester (1799-1877) MD, was founder of the Clapham General Dispensary. He was a pupil of Sir Astley Cooper, and after studying in Paris set up practice at Clapham in 1835, where he founded the Clapham General Dispensary. He retired in 1863.
Paul de Hookham Silvester (1827-?) Rector of St Levan Cornwall, was the older son of T.H. Silvester (1799-1877).
Henry Robert Silvester (1828-1908) MD, physician to the Royal Humane Society, was the younger son of T.H. Silvester (1799-1877). He qualified in London in 1885, and was later physician to the Clapham Hospital and the Royal Humane Society.
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G. Sisco was the first Professor of Clinical Surgery and Forensic Medicine at Rome University, and was appointed in 1788 by Pope Pius VI: he had held the Chair of Anatomy from 1781.
John Skinner was Rector of Camerton, Somerset, and committed suicide in 1839. The DNB refers to this MS., when it speaks of his 'work on the origin and analysis of language, which was not published.'
Skirving, who graduated MB, CM at Edinburgh University in 1893, was lecturer in surgery at the Edinburgh School of Medicine. He served in the South African War [1899-1901], and in the First World War [1914-1918] as Major in the RAMC Mul Raj Soni graduated MB, ChB in 1918, and practised in Manchester. His name disappears from the Register in 1949.
The author, who was an enthusiastic medical historian obtained his MD at Edinburgh in 1902, and practised in Sheffield. [Cf BMJ 1933, i. p. 939].
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The author qualified MD at Trinity Medical College, Toronto in 1899. In 1905 he was with Manson-Bahr at the London School of Tropical Medicine. In the next year he went to Kuala Lumpur in Malaya and devoted himself to the study of beri-beri, and its relation to a rice diet. He proved that the 'polished' grain lacked certain components, and so caused this deficiency disease, and from this theory the idea of 'Vitamins' was later developed. He also did valuable research on mosquitoes. In 1920 he was Director of the Malaria Bureau, and received his KCMG in 1934 [cf. BMJ 1938, i, pp. 312, 313].
Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart was MD Edinburgh in 1858, and appointed Professor of the Practice of Physic at the University in 1876; he was knighted in 1894 [see the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography].
Dr Albert Wilson [1854-1928] was Medical Superintendent of the Essex County Asylum at Walthamstow, and in 1908 published 'Education, Personality and Crime' and 'Unfinished Man' in 1910.
G. W. Issac qualified at Edinburgh in 1882, and had a large practice in Bloomsbury, London [cf. B.M.J. 1931, ii, p. 681.].
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Peter Taylor was a chemist and pharmacist of 18 Park Road, London. These premises were demolished in 1964.
Gaetano Termanini was Professor of Surgery and Obstetrics at Bologna University.
At the end of Vol. V are three entries by the hand of the scribe of the MS. of the births of three children in 1817, 1818 and 1820. Antonio Alessandrini [1776-1861] was professor of comparative anatomy and veterinary pathology at Bologna University in 1819. G. A. Testa was Professor of Clinical Medicine at Bologna University.