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William Rutherford Sanders

1828–81

Scottish physician. Conservator of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, 1853. Lecturer in medicine from 1853. Appointed physician to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, 1861. Appointed chair of pathology at University of Edinburgh, 1869.

Source

DNB.

Bibliography

DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.

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