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INDIVIDUAL PRACTITIONER
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Cleghorn, George (Dr)
Physician
(1716 - 1789)
Cleghorn was one of the founders of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh. He became surgeon to a regiment that was stationed in Minorca and published the observations he made there in his work ‘Observations on the Epidemical Diseases in Minorca from the Year 1744 to 1749’, which was published in 1751. Cleghorn is credited with demonstrating that quinine bark was effective as a remedy against malaria. He was also the first person to describe infectious hepatitis.
Referred to as: CleghornDEP/DUA/1/33/08
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Cleghorn, George (Dr)
Physician
(1716 - 1789)
Cleghorn was one of the founders of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh. He became surgeon to a regiment that was stationed in Minorca and published the observations he made there in his work ‘Observations on the Epidemical Diseases in Minorca from the Year 1744 to 1749’, which was published in 1751. Cleghorn is credited with demonstrating that quinine bark was effective as a remedy against malaria. He was also the first person to describe infectious hepatitis.
Referred to as: Cleghorn
DEP/DUA/1/33/08
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Cleghorn, George (Dr)
