William Aitken
1825–92
Scottish pathologist. MD, Edinburgh, 1848. Demonstrator of anatomy, University of Glasgow, and pathologist to the royal infirmary, 1848–55. Assistant pathologist in Crimean War, 1855. Professor of pathology at the army medical school, 1860–92. FRS 1873. Knighted, 1887.
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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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