John Houston
1801–45
Irish anatomist. Apprenticed to John Shekleton, founder and curator of the Dublin College of Surgeons’ museum, 1819; curator, 1824–41. MD, Edinburgh, 1826. Surgeon to the City of Dublin Hospital, 1832. Lecturer on surgery, Park Street school of medicine, 1837. One of the first to introduce the microscope to medicine in Dublin.
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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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