Tag: Scottish doctors
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The two Scottish doctors John Brown
There were two John Brown physicians of note in Scotland, sometimes confused with one another and for practical purposes identified by the date of their birth. The older John Brown was born in 1735 in a village in the south of Scotland. He had the benefit of a good classical education and is believed to…
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Sir John Pringle, public health and military medicine pioneer
At the end of the eighteenth century, Scottish doctors were more popular with patients than English ones because “their useful knowledge contrasted with the ornamental learning of English physicians who were Anglican or Oxbridge trained.”1 By 1825 almost 70% of all fellows and licentiates of the Royal College of Physicians were Scottish educated, including Richard…