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Thomas Laycock

1812–76

Physician. Attended the medical school of London University from 1833. MD, Göttingen, 1839. House apothecary, York County Hospital, 1836–9; general practitioner in York from 1839. Physician, York Dispensary, from 1842. Lecturer, York medical school, 1846–55. Professor of the practice of physic, University of Edinburgh, from 1855. Physician-in-ordinary to the queen in Scotland and president of the Medico-Physiological Association from 1869. Wrote on medical psychology and mental disease.

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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