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Name: Description: Sagar, Johann Baptist Michael Edler von (Unknown)
Nosologist
(1702 - 1778)Sagar was a nosologist whose work influenced, among others, the Edinburgh physician Dr William Cullen. Sagar's most influential publication was 'Systema morborum symptomaticum secundum classes, ordines, genera et species, cum characteribus, differentiis et therapeiis'. Sanden, Thomas (Dr)
Physician
(1752 - 1840)Sanden wrote 'Short Strictures on the Method of Treatment Recommended by Dr Dawson, in the Acute Rhematism' (1782), and 'A Tribute to the Memory of John Bayly, MD' (1816). Sanden founded the Chichester Dispensary with Reverend William Walker in 1784. He was a cousin of John Bayly, physician (1735-1815). Saunders, William (Dr)
Physician
(1743 - 1817)Saunders was born in Banff, Scotland. He studied at the University of Edinburgh where he graduated MD in 1765. Saunders set up his practice in London and began lecturing in materia medica and medicine at Guy’s Hospital. He also began offering clinical lectures. Saunders later published ‘Observations on the superior Efficacy of the Red Peruvian Bark’ (1782). Sibbald, Robert (Sir)
Physician and geographer
(1641 - 1722)Sibbald studied at the University of Edinburgh, first receiving his MA and then studying divinity. In 1660 Sibbald travelled to Leiden to study medicine. He then went to Paris and moved to Angers, where he graduated MD in 1662. After briefly living in London, he returned to Scotland in 1662, settling in Edinburgh. Sibbald was instrumental in developing Edinburgh’s physic garden, in the foundation of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and in the production of the 'Pharmacopeia Edinburgensis'. In 1685 he became the first professor of medicine at Edinburgh University. Sibbald was knighted in 1682 and appointed physician-in-ordinary to King Charles II, as well as serving as physician to his successor King James II and VII, he was also made geographer royal for Scotland. Simmons, Samuel Foart (Dr)
Physician
(1750 - 1813)Simmons studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and was awarded an MD at Leiden in 1776. Simmons was appointed, first as physician to the Westminster General Dispensary in 1780 and then physician to the Bethlem Hospital in 1781. His main contribution was the publication of the ‘Medical Register’ in 1779, 1780 and 1783, the ‘London Medical Journal’ and ‘Medical Facts and Observations’. Simson, James (Dr)
Physician
(1740 - 1770)Son of Thomas Simson, a Scottish medical academic at the University of St Andrews, Simson was awarded the degree of MD. He succeeded his father as the second Chandos Professor at the University of St Andrews in 1764, a post he held until his death in 1770. His library was bequeathed to the University of St Andrews in 1770. Sloane, Hans (Dr)
Physician
(1660 - 1753)Sir Hans Sloane was born in county Down in 1660. He moved to London in the 1680s to study chemistry, anatomy, physic and botany. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Orange in 1683. He then attended the University of Montpellier and in 1684 returned to London. In 1687 Sloane set sail with the governor of Jamaica, the second duke of Albemarle, to act as the duke’s personal physician. Sloane spent over a year in Jamaica, studying the natural environment. In 1689, after the death of the duke, Sloane returned to England. In 1694 he was appointed physician in charge of Christ’s Hospital, London. He became president of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1719. He also acted as personal physician to a succession of monarchs. Sloane died in 1753 in Chelsea. Smith, Unknown (Dr)
Physician
(Unknown - Unknown)Smith was a physician who described Angina Pectoris. No further information has been identified about this individual. Smyth, Unknown (Dr)
Physician
(Unknown - Unknown)Smyth was a physician in Dublin. No further information has been identified about this individual. Sömmerring, Samuel Thomas von (Dr)
Physician
(1755 - 1830)Sömmerring was born in Thorn, Prussia. He studied medicine at the University of Göttingen. Sömmerring was made a professor of anatomy, first at the Collegium Carolinum in Kassel and then at the University of Mainz. In 1804 Sömmerring took up a post at the Academy of Science of Bavaria, based in Munich. Sömmerring published widely, on subjects including medicine, anthropology, anatomy, palaeontology, astronomy and philosophy. Spens, Nathaniel (Dr)
Physician
(1728 - 1815)Born in Fife, Spens studied medicine at the University of St Andrews before moving to Edinburgh to practise. He became a member of the Incorporation of Surgeons in 1751. After practising in Edinburgh, Spens became steadily more interested in the practice of physic, becoming a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1773 and a Fellow of the College the following year, going on to be Treasurer. Spens was a member of the Royal Company of Archers, which is said to be the first military body in the service of the British Crown to adapt tartan in their uniform. Spens, Thomas (Dr)
Physician
(1764 - 1842)Spens studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh qualifying MD in 1784. He worked as a physician at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum. In 1803 he succeeded William Wright as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh after serving as Treasurer. Like his father, Nathaniel Spens, Thomas was a member of the Royal Company of Archers and succeeded the role of President from Charles Stuart of Dunearn. Stahl, George Ernst (Dr)
Physician, chemist and philosopher
(1659 - 1734)Born in Ansbach (Germany), Stahl enrolled at the University of Jena in 1679 to study medicine. He qualified as a doctor in 1684 and three years later was appointed as the private physician of Sachsen-Weimar's Duke Johann Ernst. In 1715, he was appointed first personal physician to Friedrich Wilhelm I, King of Prussia, and he relocated to Berlin. There, he was also the director of the Collegium Medicum, the supervisory body for physicians, surgeons, and pharmacists. Stedman, John (Dr)
Physician
(1710 - 1791)Stedman was born in Dunfermline, in 1710. In the 1730s he attended the University of Edinburgh where he obtained his MD. In 1740 he was appointed surgeon-major to the North British Dragoons and was present at the Battle of Dettingen in 1743. After returning to Scotland, Stedman became a Fellow of the Philosophical Society and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He obtained the post of surgeon to the Merchant Maiden Hospital and the post of a physician-in-ordinary to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. In 1783 he became one of the founders of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Stevenson, Unknown (Dr)
Physician
(Unknown - Unknown)Stevenson was a medical student at the University of Edinburgh and his inaugural dissertation was on the subject of the medical uses of electricity. Sutton, Thomas (Mr)
Surgeon, inoculator
(1735 - 1819)Sutton was born in Kenton, Suffolk. He trained under his father, who was a surgeon, apothecary and inoculator. He then became an assistant to an Essex doctor before setting up his own practice. Sutton disagreed with the long preparatory period and subsequent confinement which was recommended by inoculators to their patients. He established a simplified, although still complex, procedure and set up inoculation houses across England to carry out the procedure. Sutton carried out mass inoculations of entire towns and districts. His brothers and his son, Daniel, followed him into the business, and they began to be referred to collectively as the ‘Sutton inoculators’. Sydenham, Thomas (Dr)
Physician
(1624 - 1689)Sydenham was baptized in 1624 in Dorset. Although he matriculated at Oxford University in 1642 the outbreak of the English Civil War led to his leaving the university to join the parliamentary militia before his studies were complete. Sydenham took up a position with the exchequer, known as the office of comptroller of the pipe, in the mid-1650s. Although it has been suggested that Sydenham subsequently travelled to Montpellier and studied there, there is a lack of evidence to corroborate this. At some point in the 1850s Sydenham travelled to London and began to style himself as ‘Dr’, in spite of the fact he did not hold an MD. He only graduated MD, from Cambridge University, late in life – in 1676.
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- Sagar, Johann Baptist Michael Edler von (Unknown)
Nosologist
(1702 - 1778)
Sagar was a nosologist whose work influenced, among others, the Edinburgh physician Dr William Cullen. Sagar's most influential publication was 'Systema morborum symptomaticum secundum classes, ordines, genera et species, cum characteribus, differentiis et therapeiis'.
- Sanden, Thomas (Dr)
Physician
(1752 - 1840)
Sanden wrote 'Short Strictures on the Method of Treatment Recommended by Dr Dawson, in the Acute Rhematism' (1782), and 'A Tribute to the Memory of John Bayly, MD' (1816). Sanden founded the Chichester Dispensary with Reverend William Walker in 1784. He was a cousin of John Bayly, physician (1735-1815).
- Saunders, William (Dr)
Physician
(1743 - 1817)
Saunders was born in Banff, Scotland. He studied at the University of Edinburgh where he graduated MD in 1765. Saunders set up his practice in London and began lecturing in materia medica and medicine at Guy’s Hospital. He also began offering clinical lectures. Saunders later published ‘Observations on the superior Efficacy of the Red Peruvian Bark’ (1782).
- Sibbald, Robert (Sir)
Physician and geographer
(1641 - 1722)
Sibbald studied at the University of Edinburgh, first receiving his MA and then studying divinity. In 1660 Sibbald travelled to Leiden to study medicine. He then went to Paris and moved to Angers, where he graduated MD in 1662. After briefly living in London, he returned to Scotland in 1662, settling in Edinburgh. Sibbald was instrumental in developing Edinburgh’s physic garden, in the foundation of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and in the production of the 'Pharmacopeia Edinburgensis'. In 1685 he became the first professor of medicine at Edinburgh University. Sibbald was knighted in 1682 and appointed physician-in-ordinary to King Charles II, as well as serving as physician to his successor King James II and VII, he was also made geographer royal for Scotland.
- Simmons, Samuel Foart (Dr)
Physician
(1750 - 1813)
Simmons studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and was awarded an MD at Leiden in 1776. Simmons was appointed, first as physician to the Westminster General Dispensary in 1780 and then physician to the Bethlem Hospital in 1781. His main contribution was the publication of the ‘Medical Register’ in 1779, 1780 and 1783, the ‘London Medical Journal’ and ‘Medical Facts and Observations’.
- Simson, James (Dr)
Physician
(1740 - 1770)
Son of Thomas Simson, a Scottish medical academic at the University of St Andrews, Simson was awarded the degree of MD. He succeeded his father as the second Chandos Professor at the University of St Andrews in 1764, a post he held until his death in 1770. His library was bequeathed to the University of St Andrews in 1770.
- Sloane, Hans (Dr)
Physician
(1660 - 1753)
Sir Hans Sloane was born in county Down in 1660. He moved to London in the 1680s to study chemistry, anatomy, physic and botany. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Orange in 1683. He then attended the University of Montpellier and in 1684 returned to London. In 1687 Sloane set sail with the governor of Jamaica, the second duke of Albemarle, to act as the duke’s personal physician. Sloane spent over a year in Jamaica, studying the natural environment. In 1689, after the death of the duke, Sloane returned to England. In 1694 he was appointed physician in charge of Christ’s Hospital, London. He became president of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1719. He also acted as personal physician to a succession of monarchs. Sloane died in 1753 in Chelsea.
- Smith, Unknown (Dr)
Physician
(Unknown - Unknown)
Smith was a physician who described Angina Pectoris. No further information has been identified about this individual.
- Smyth, Unknown (Dr)
Physician
(Unknown - Unknown)
Smyth was a physician in Dublin. No further information has been identified about this individual.
- Sömmerring, Samuel Thomas von (Dr)
Physician
(1755 - 1830)
Sömmerring was born in Thorn, Prussia. He studied medicine at the University of Göttingen. Sömmerring was made a professor of anatomy, first at the Collegium Carolinum in Kassel and then at the University of Mainz. In 1804 Sömmerring took up a post at the Academy of Science of Bavaria, based in Munich. Sömmerring published widely, on subjects including medicine, anthropology, anatomy, palaeontology, astronomy and philosophy.
- Spens, Nathaniel (Dr)
Physician
(1728 - 1815)
Born in Fife, Spens studied medicine at the University of St Andrews before moving to Edinburgh to practise. He became a member of the Incorporation of Surgeons in 1751. After practising in Edinburgh, Spens became steadily more interested in the practice of physic, becoming a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1773 and a Fellow of the College the following year, going on to be Treasurer. Spens was a member of the Royal Company of Archers, which is said to be the first military body in the service of the British Crown to adapt tartan in their uniform.
- Spens, Thomas (Dr)
Physician
(1764 - 1842)
Spens studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh qualifying MD in 1784. He worked as a physician at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum. In 1803 he succeeded William Wright as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh after serving as Treasurer. Like his father, Nathaniel Spens, Thomas was a member of the Royal Company of Archers and succeeded the role of President from Charles Stuart of Dunearn.
- Stahl, George Ernst (Dr)
Physician, chemist and philosopher
(1659 - 1734)
Born in Ansbach (Germany), Stahl enrolled at the University of Jena in 1679 to study medicine. He qualified as a doctor in 1684 and three years later was appointed as the private physician of Sachsen-Weimar's Duke Johann Ernst. In 1715, he was appointed first personal physician to Friedrich Wilhelm I, King of Prussia, and he relocated to Berlin. There, he was also the director of the Collegium Medicum, the supervisory body for physicians, surgeons, and pharmacists.
- Stedman, John (Dr)
Physician
(1710 - 1791)
Stedman was born in Dunfermline, in 1710. In the 1730s he attended the University of Edinburgh where he obtained his MD. In 1740 he was appointed surgeon-major to the North British Dragoons and was present at the Battle of Dettingen in 1743. After returning to Scotland, Stedman became a Fellow of the Philosophical Society and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He obtained the post of surgeon to the Merchant Maiden Hospital and the post of a physician-in-ordinary to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. In 1783 he became one of the founders of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
- Stevenson, Unknown (Dr)
Physician
(Unknown - Unknown)
Stevenson was a medical student at the University of Edinburgh and his inaugural dissertation was on the subject of the medical uses of electricity.
- Sutton, Thomas (Mr)
Surgeon, inoculator
(1735 - 1819)
Sutton was born in Kenton, Suffolk. He trained under his father, who was a surgeon, apothecary and inoculator. He then became an assistant to an Essex doctor before setting up his own practice. Sutton disagreed with the long preparatory period and subsequent confinement which was recommended by inoculators to their patients. He established a simplified, although still complex, procedure and set up inoculation houses across England to carry out the procedure. Sutton carried out mass inoculations of entire towns and districts. His brothers and his son, Daniel, followed him into the business, and they began to be referred to collectively as the ‘Sutton inoculators’.
- Sydenham, Thomas (Dr)
Physician
(1624 - 1689)
Sydenham was baptized in 1624 in Dorset. Although he matriculated at Oxford University in 1642 the outbreak of the English Civil War led to his leaving the university to join the parliamentary militia before his studies were complete. Sydenham took up a position with the exchequer, known as the office of comptroller of the pipe, in the mid-1650s. Although it has been suggested that Sydenham subsequently travelled to Montpellier and studied there, there is a lack of evidence to corroborate this. At some point in the 1850s Sydenham travelled to London and began to style himself as ‘Dr’, in spite of the fact he did not hold an MD. He only graduated MD, from Cambridge University, late in life – in 1676.
- Sagar, Johann Baptist Michael Edler von (Unknown)
