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Thomas Meik

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Thomas Meik received an MD from the University of St Andrews on the proposal of James Lind. He became an army physician and by 1779 was Physician to the Garrison at Portsmouth, a post he held for thirty-nine years. He is recorded as treating Thomas Jefferson's daughter during her journey to Paris in 1784. Meik died at Portsmouth in June 1811.

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John Lind

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John Lind, the son of James Lind of Haslar, the discoverer of the cure to scurvy, was awarded a medical degree from St Andrews in 1777. He immediately joined his father in the military hospital of Haslar, becoming junior physician before being promoted to Senior Physician in 1783. By 1819 he retired, and built the Ryde Estate on the Isle of Wight. His son James Player Lind followed his father and grandfather into the medical profession.

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William Grieve

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William Grieve received his MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1770 with a dissertation on tertiary fevers. He practised in Peebles and from 1783 in Richmond, Surrey. His dissertation was dedicated to William, Earl of March and Ruglen (later 4th Duke of Queensberry), whom he likely served as medical adviser. He was elected MP for Linlithgow Burghs in 1790.

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Henry Cullen

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Henry Cullen, son of Dr William Cullen, received his MD from the University of Edinburgh with a dissertation on the human body. In 1776 he became Physician-in-Ordinary to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, serving until his death in 1790 at the age of thirty-two.

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John Ellison

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John Ellison received an MD from the University of St Andrews in 1782 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1783. He practised in Wakefield, Yorkshire, where he served as a governor of the grammar school. He died there in 1791.

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Robert Steavenson

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Robert Steavenson received his MD from the University of Edinburgh with a thesis on the use of electricity in curing diseases. He practised in Berwick-upon-Tweed and later in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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Jean-Joseph Sue

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Jean-Joseph Sue, son of Professor Jean-Joseph Sue of the Academie royale de chirurgie in Paris, qualified in surgery at the Sorbonne in 1781. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1783, then served at the Hopital de la Charite and as Professor of Anatomy at the Academie royale de peinture et de sculpture. After the Revolution he was physician to the National Convention and later Chief Medical Officer to the Consular and Imperial Guards, personal physician to Josephine, and Surgeon-Consultant to Louis XVIII. He was created an Imperial Knight in 1808 and died in 1830.

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John Marshall

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John Marshall received an MD from the University of St Andrews in 1782 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1783. He practised in King's Lynn, Norfolk, where he died about 1823.

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James Wood

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James Wood, the son of Walter Wood, a merchant who traded prominently in Denmark, earned his MD in 1776 from the University of Edinburgh with a thesis on Emetics. In December 1777 he was enlisted as the Regimental Surgeon for the newly raised 74th Regiment of Foot (Argyllshire Highlanders). After the regiment disbanded following the end of the American Revolutionary War, Wood returned to Britain and became a Fellow of this College. Wood's uncle was Alexander Wood, FRCSE. He spent time in London and Yorkshire before settling in Perthshire, where he lived until he died in 1727/8.

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Robert Grant

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Robert Grant trained as a surgeon in Inverness, received his MD from King's College, Aberdeen, in 1780, and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1784. He practised for most of his career and had relocated to London by 1806, just prior to his death.