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Garthshore, Maxwell (1732–1812), physician accoucheur  

G. T. Bettany

revised by Michael Bevan

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Garthshore, Maxwell (1732–1812), physician accoucheur, was born at Kirkcudbright on 28 October 1732, the son of Barbara Gordon and her husband, George Garthshore (1687/8–1760), for fifty years minister in Kirkcudbright. After being educated at the Kirkcudbright grammar school he was apprenticed to a surgeon apothecary in ...

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

Helen Brock

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

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 ...