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Henry Duncan Littlejohn

1826–1914

Scottish surgeon. MD, Edinburgh, 1847. Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1854. Lectured on forensic medicine, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, 1856–97. Surgeon of police for Edinburgh, from 1854. Medical officer of health, Edinburgh, from 1862. Professor of forensic medicine and public health, Edinburgh University, from 1897. Knighted 1895.

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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