Darwin Correspondence Project

 Scottish physician . Professor of medical jurisprudence, Edinburgh University, 1822–32; professor of clinical medicine, 1832–55; professor of materia medica and therapeutics, 1832–77. President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1839 and 1848. President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1868–73. President of the British Medical Association, 1875. Physician in ordinary to the queen in Scotland, 1848. Created baronet, 1871.

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See also Correspondence, volume(s): 10