Thomas Cossar

Thomas Cossar obtained his MD from Edinburgh in 1841, having trained at Edinburgh and Paris, where he was a member of the Paris Medical Society. He worked for several years in the north east of England, serving as Resident Physician at an asylum in Cumberland and later as Visiting Physician at Dinsdale Park Retreat, Durham. During this period he published 'An analysis of the mineral waters at Croft and Dinsdale, Durham'. His other publications include 'Case of hydrophobia', published in the British Medical Journal in 1867. He later worked as a physician at the West Norfolk and Lynn Hospital.