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Edmund Alexander Parkes

1819–76

Physician and author of works on tropical diseases. Served as assistant surgeon in India, 1842–5. Special professor of clinical medicine at University College, London, and physician to the University College Hospital, 1849. Professor of military hygiene at the Army Medical School at Chatham, 1860. FRS 1861.

Source

ODNB.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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