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Name: Description: Darwin, Erasmus (Dr)
Physician
(1731 - 1802)Darwin studied medicine at Edinburgh in the 1750s. His books included ‘Zoonomia’ (1794) and ‘Loves of the Plants’ which published in two parts in 1789 and 1791 and ‘The Temple of Nature’ (1803). Darwin, Charles (Mr)
Medical student
(1758 - 1778)Darwin attended school in Lichfield, and in 1775 was matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford. Within a year, he chose to leave Oxford for the University of Edinburgh, where he befriended Andrew Duncan, then a clinical teacher. In 1778 he submitted a dissertation on the distinctions between mucus and pus to the Aesculapian Society, founded in 1773 by Duncan, which won him the society's first annual gold medal. He prepared a thesis on 'Retrograde Motions of the Lymphatic Vessels in Some Diseases', but died before graduating due to an injury gained during a dissection. His father published Darwin’s work in 1780, entitled ‘Experiments establishing a criterion between mucaginous and purulent matter. And an account of the retrograde motions of the absorbent vessels of animal bodies in some diseases’. An unpublished manuscript entitled ‘What are the established varieties of the pulse, their causes & use in medicine’ may also have been written by Darwin. Dawson, Thomas (Dr)
Physician
(c1725 - 1782)Dawson attended Kendal Academy from 1746 and studied for his MD at Glasgow College from 1749 until 1753. After his graduation, he briefly worked as a minister in Hackney but soon switched to practising medicine in London. He was physician at Middlesex Hospital for two years beginning in 1759, was admitted as licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1762, and was physician at the London Hospital from 1964 until 1770; he also saw patients at Batson’s Coffee House in Cornhill. He published ‘Cases in the Acute Rheumatism and the Gout, with Cursory Remarks and the Method of Treatment’ in 1774, and ‘An Account of a Safe and Efficient Remedy for Sore Eyes and Eyelids’ in 1782. De Haen, Anton (Dr)
Austrian physician
(1704 - 1776)Born in the Hague, de Haen studied medicine in Leiden under Hermann Boerhaave. In 1754 he went to the University of Vienna where he became the head of its medical clinic. He notably taught students at the bedsides of patients. Degner, Johann Hartmann (Dr)
Physician
(1687 - 1756)Johann Hartmann Degner began studying law at Halle, but moved on to study his real passion of medicine and in 1717 he received his M.D. from the University of Utrecht. After working in Elberfeld for a year, he went to work as a doctor in Nijmegen in 1719, and became mayor to the city in 1951. In 1729, he published ‘Dissertatio physica de turfis, sistens historiam naturalem cespitum combustilium qui in multis Europae regionibus, et praecipue in Hollandia reperiuntur, ac ligni loco usurpantur’ (‘A physical treatise on turfs, showing the natural history of the combustible turfs which are found in many parts of Europe, and especially in Holland, and are used instead of wood.’) in 1729. He wrote about the Ruhr epidemic of 1736 in ‘Historia medica de dysenteria bilioso-contagiosa, quae 1736 Neomagi et in vicinis ei pagis epidemice grassata fuit’ (‘A medical history of bilious-contagious dysentery, which in 1736 was an epidemic in Neomagi and neighboring villages’), published in 1738. Dioscorides, Pedanius (Dr)
Physician, pharmacologist, botanist
(c40 - c90)Dioscorides likely studied medicine at the school in Tarsus, which was near his home city Anazarbus in Cilicia. The school had a pharmacological emphasis, with Dioscordies dedicating his medical books to Laecanius Arius, a medical practitioner there. Whilst he is said to have served in the Roman army as a physician, his pharmacopoeia refers almost solely to plants found in the Greek-speaking eastern Mediterranean. This indicates that it is unlikely that he served in campaigns or travelled outside of that region. As Padanius is a Roman name, this also indicates that he was sponsored by an aristocrat of this name to become a Roman citizen. Dobson, Matthew (Dr)
Physician and natural philosopher
(1732 - 1784)Dobson enrolled at the University of Glasgow in 1750 where he assisted William Cullen with his experiments on evaporation. Cullen also encouraged Dobson to investigate the effects of temperature and chemistry, topics that continued to be a lifelong fascination. After graduating in 1753, Dobson attended the Edinburgh Medical School, becoming a member of the Medical Society (later known as the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh), graduating MD in 1756 with his thesis on menstruation.
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- Darwin, Erasmus (Dr)
Physician
(1731 - 1802)
Darwin studied medicine at Edinburgh in the 1750s. His books included ‘Zoonomia’ (1794) and ‘Loves of the Plants’ which published in two parts in 1789 and 1791 and ‘The Temple of Nature’ (1803).
- Darwin, Charles (Mr)
Medical student
(1758 - 1778)
Darwin attended school in Lichfield, and in 1775 was matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford. Within a year, he chose to leave Oxford for the University of Edinburgh, where he befriended Andrew Duncan, then a clinical teacher. In 1778 he submitted a dissertation on the distinctions between mucus and pus to the Aesculapian Society, founded in 1773 by Duncan, which won him the society's first annual gold medal. He prepared a thesis on 'Retrograde Motions of the Lymphatic Vessels in Some Diseases', but died before graduating due to an injury gained during a dissection. His father published Darwin’s work in 1780, entitled ‘Experiments establishing a criterion between mucaginous and purulent matter. And an account of the retrograde motions of the absorbent vessels of animal bodies in some diseases’. An unpublished manuscript entitled ‘What are the established varieties of the pulse, their causes & use in medicine’ may also have been written by Darwin.
- Dawson, Thomas (Dr)
Physician
(c1725 - 1782)
Dawson attended Kendal Academy from 1746 and studied for his MD at Glasgow College from 1749 until 1753. After his graduation, he briefly worked as a minister in Hackney but soon switched to practising medicine in London. He was physician at Middlesex Hospital for two years beginning in 1759, was admitted as licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1762, and was physician at the London Hospital from 1964 until 1770; he also saw patients at Batson’s Coffee House in Cornhill. He published ‘Cases in the Acute Rheumatism and the Gout, with Cursory Remarks and the Method of Treatment’ in 1774, and ‘An Account of a Safe and Efficient Remedy for Sore Eyes and Eyelids’ in 1782.
- De Haen, Anton (Dr)
Austrian physician
(1704 - 1776)
Born in the Hague, de Haen studied medicine in Leiden under Hermann Boerhaave. In 1754 he went to the University of Vienna where he became the head of its medical clinic. He notably taught students at the bedsides of patients.
- Degner, Johann Hartmann (Dr)
Physician
(1687 - 1756)
Johann Hartmann Degner began studying law at Halle, but moved on to study his real passion of medicine and in 1717 he received his M.D. from the University of Utrecht. After working in Elberfeld for a year, he went to work as a doctor in Nijmegen in 1719, and became mayor to the city in 1951. In 1729, he published ‘Dissertatio physica de turfis, sistens historiam naturalem cespitum combustilium qui in multis Europae regionibus, et praecipue in Hollandia reperiuntur, ac ligni loco usurpantur’ (‘A physical treatise on turfs, showing the natural history of the combustible turfs which are found in many parts of Europe, and especially in Holland, and are used instead of wood.’) in 1729. He wrote about the Ruhr epidemic of 1736 in ‘Historia medica de dysenteria bilioso-contagiosa, quae 1736 Neomagi et in vicinis ei pagis epidemice grassata fuit’ (‘A medical history of bilious-contagious dysentery, which in 1736 was an epidemic in Neomagi and neighboring villages’), published in 1738.
- Dioscorides, Pedanius (Dr)
Physician, pharmacologist, botanist
(c40 - c90)
Dioscorides likely studied medicine at the school in Tarsus, which was near his home city Anazarbus in Cilicia. The school had a pharmacological emphasis, with Dioscordies dedicating his medical books to Laecanius Arius, a medical practitioner there. Whilst he is said to have served in the Roman army as a physician, his pharmacopoeia refers almost solely to plants found in the Greek-speaking eastern Mediterranean. This indicates that it is unlikely that he served in campaigns or travelled outside of that region. As Padanius is a Roman name, this also indicates that he was sponsored by an aristocrat of this name to become a Roman citizen.
- Dobson, Matthew (Dr)
Physician and natural philosopher
(1732 - 1784)
Dobson enrolled at the University of Glasgow in 1750 where he assisted William Cullen with his experiments on evaporation. Cullen also encouraged Dobson to investigate the effects of temperature and chemistry, topics that continued to be a lifelong fascination. After graduating in 1753, Dobson attended the Edinburgh Medical School, becoming a member of the Medical Society (later known as the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh), graduating MD in 1756 with his thesis on menstruation.
- Darwin, Erasmus (Dr)
