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Joseph Carne Ross

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Joseph Carne Ross was born in Funchal, Madeira, in 1845. After a military career he entered medicine, training at the University of Edinburgh, where he earned his MB in 1880 and MD in 1882. He worked as Non-Resident House Physician in the clinical wards and as a Clinical Assistant in the University wards at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. He later moved to Penzance, serving as Honorary Physician at the West Cornwall Infirmary, before settling in Manchester as Physician at Ancoats Hospital. He published 'Observations upon the Modes of Treatment of Pleurisy with Effusion', contributed letters to The Lancet, and authored the speculative fiction work 'Quintura: Its Singular People and Remarkable Customs'. He died in Withington, Manchester, in 1911.