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Samuel Wilks, 1st baronet

1824–1911

Physician, anatomist, and medical biographer. MB, London, 1848; MD 1850. MRCP 1851; FRCP 1856. Physician at Guy’s Hospital, 1867–85; an editor of Guy’s Hospital Reports, 1854–65. His lectures on morbid anatomy were published as Pathological anatomy, 1859. Harveian orator of the Royal College of Physicians, 1879; vice-president, 1890; president, 1896–9. FRS 1870. Created baronet, 1897.

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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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