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Baillie, Matthew (1761–1823), morbid anatomist and physician  

John Jones

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23 September 2004
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Baillie, Matthew (1761–1823), morbid anatomist and physician, was born on 27 October 1761 at Shotts manse, Lanarkshire, the second but only surviving son of James Baillie (c.1722–1778) and his wife, Dorothea (c.1721–1806). They had an elder daughter, and also one younger, ...

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Highmore, Nathaniel (1613–1685), chemical physician and anatomist  

Malcolm Oster

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23 September 2004
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Highmore, Nathaniel (1613–1685), chemical physician and anatomist, was born on 6 February 1613 at Fordingbridge, Hampshire, the elder son of Nathaniel Highmore, rector of Purse Caundle, a village near Sherborne in Dorset. Educated at Sherborne School and Trinity College, Oxford, Highmore graduated BA (1635) and MA (1638) with the aid of a scholarship at ...

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Hunter, William (1718–1783), physician, anatomist, and man-midwife  

Helen Brock

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Hunter, William (1718–1783), physician, anatomist, and man-midwife, was born on 23 May 1718 at Long Calderwood, East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, the seventh of ten children of John Hunter (d. 1741), farmer, and Agnes (d. 1751), a woman of wide education, daughter of ...

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Nicholls, Francis [Frank] (bap. 1699?, d. 1778), anatomist and physician  

Anita Guerrini

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Nicholls, Francis [Frank] (bap. 1699?, d. 1778), anatomist and physician, was the second of the three sons of John Nicholls (d. 1714) of Trereife, Cornwall, barrister. He can probably be identified with the Francis Nicholls who was baptized on 19 January 1699 at the church of ...

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Tyson, Edward (1651–1708), physician and anatomist  

Anita Guerrini

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23 September 2004
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Tyson, Edward (1651–1708), physician and anatomist, was born in the parish of St Nicholas, Bristol, on 20 January 1651, the second surviving son of Edward Tyson (d. 1667), mercer and later mayor of Bristol, and Margaret, daughter of the iron master Richard Foley (1579/80–1657)...