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William Savory was the son of William Savory of Brightwalton, Wantage. He was apprenticed at the age of 14 to Dr David Jones, Newberry, before becomming a student of the Borough Hospitals (Guy's and St Thomas's) in 1788-1789. He later became a member of the Surgeon's Company.
Henry Cline: born, London, 1750; educated, Merchant Taylors' School; apprenticed to Mr Thomas Smith, surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital, 1767; diploma from Surgeons' Hall, 1774; Lecturer on anatomy, St Thomas's Hospital, 1781-1811; Surgeon, St Thomas's Hospital, 1784-1811; examiner at the College of Surgeons, 1810; master of the College of Surgeons, 1815, president, 1823; delivered the Hunterian oration, 1816, 1824; died, 1827. Publications: On the Form of Animals (Bulmer & Co, London, 1805).
William Saunders was born, Banff, 1743; educated, University of Edinburgh; graduated MD, 1765; began practice in London; licentiate of the College of Physicians, 1769; lectured on chemistry, pharmacy and on medicine; Physician, Guy's Hospital, 1770-1802; lectured on the theory and practice of medicine; Fellow, 1790, and Censor, 1791, 1798, 1805, 1813, College of Physicians; delivered the Gulstonian lectures, 1792; probably the first English physician to observe that in some forms of cirrhosis, the liver became enlarged and afterwards contracted; delivered the Harveian oration, 1796; Fellow, Royal Society, 1793; a founder member and first president, Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, 1805; Physician to the Prince Regent, 1807; retired from practice, 1814; died, 1817. Publications include: A Catalogue of the Materia Medica, printed for the use of such gentlemen as attend Dr Saunders's lectures on that subject, in London [London, 1760?]; Dissertatio ... de antimonio, etc (W Ruddiman, J Richardson & Soc, Edinburgh, 1765); A syllabus of lectures on chymistry [London?, 1766?]; A Syllabus of Lectures on Chymistry and Pharmacy ([London?] 1766); Compendium medicinæ practicum ad prælectiones accommodatum ... Editio altera emmendata (J Richardson, London, 1774); Institutes of therapeutics and materia medica (London, 1774); Observations and experiments on the power of the mephytic acid in dissolving stones of the bladder. In a letter to Dr Percival (London, 1777); Elements of the practice of physic, etc. (The general plan of lectures upon ... physick, chemistry, therapeutics and the materia medica, now read at Guy's Hospital.) ([London] 1780); Observations on the superior efficacy of the red Peruvian bark, in the cure of agues and other fevers. Interspersed with occasional remarks on the treatment of other diseases, by the same remedy (printed for J Johnson and J Murray, London, 1782); A Treatise on the structure, economy and diseases of the Liver; together with an enquiry into the properties ... of the bile and biliary concretions: being the substance of the Gulstonian Lectures ..1792 (London, 1793); Oratio ex Harveii instituto habita in theatro Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis, Octob. 19, 1796 (London, 1797); A treatise on the chemical history and medical powers of some of the most celebrated mineral waters; with practical remarks on the aqueous regimen. To which are added, observations on the use of cold and warm bathing (London: William Phillips, 1800); Observations on the Hepatitis of India, and on the prevalent use of mercury in the diseases of this country (London, 1809).