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Black, Joseph (1728–1799), chemist and physician  

R. G. W. Anderson

Black, Joseph (1728–1799), chemist and physician, was born on 16 April 1728 in Bordeaux, the sixth of twelve children of John Black, an Ulsterman who was a factor in the wine trade, and his wife, Margaret Gordon (d. 1747). Black's brothers all became manufacturers or tradesmen of various kinds and all were unsuccessful in business. ...

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Butts, Sir William (c. 1485–1545), physician  

C. T. Martin

revised by Rachel E. Davies

Butts, Sir William (c. 1485–1545), physician, was born in Norwich, the son of John Butts, auditor of crown revenues, and his wife, Elizabeth. He was educated at Gonville Hall, Cambridge, becoming BA in 1507, MA in 1509, and MD in 1518. In the following year he applied for incorporation into the ...

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Cotton, Nathaniel (1705–1788), poet and physician  

Leslie Ritchie

Cotton, Nathaniel (1705–1788), poet and physician, was born in London to Samuel Cotton, a Levant merchant. No record of his birth survives, although a Nathaniel Cotton, son of Samuel and Mary Cotton, was baptized on 12 March 1706 in Bull Lane Independent Chapel, Stepney...

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Craig, John (d. 1655), physician  

John Henry

Craig, John (d. 1655), physician, was the third son of the eminent Scottish lawyer Thomas Craig (1538?–1608), and his wife, Helen Heriot of Lymphoy. Sir Lewis Craig of Riccarton, Lord Wrightslands, was his older brother. He matriculated as a medical student at the ...

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Garencières, Theophilus (1610–c. 1680), physician  

Norman Moore

revised by Michael Bevan

Garencières, Theophilus (1610–c. 1680), physician, was born in Paris. After mastering the primer he was made to read The Prophecies of Nostradamus, and retained a love for them throughout his life. He graduated MD at Caen in Normandy in 1636. Garencières came to ...

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Jaeger, Gustav (1832–1917), physician, zoologist, and dress reformer  

Anthea Jarvis

Jaeger, Gustav (1832–1917), physician, zoologist, and dress reformer, was born on 23 June 1832 at Bürg am Kocher, now part of the town of Neuenstadt, Germany, the younger son of Karl Friedrich Jaeger (1794–1842), priest and historian of Schwabia, and his wife, Ulrike (1795–1881)...

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Mayerne, Sir Theodore Turquet de (1573–1655), physician  

Hugh Trevor-Roper

Mayerne, Sir Theodore Turquet de (1573–1655), physician, the eldest son of Louis Turquet and his wife, Louise, daughter of Antoine le Maçon, treasurer-at-war to François I and Henri II of France, was born at Geneva on 28 September 1573. He was christened Théodore...

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Misaubin, Jean (1673–1734), physician  

Norman Moore

revised by Michael Bevan

Misaubin, Jean (1673–1734), physician, was born in Mussidan, France, and is said to have graduated MD at the University of Cahors on 7 July 1687. He was in Canterbury in 1697 but later settled in London, and on 25 June 1719 became a licentiate of the ...

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Phipson, (Mary) Edith Pechey- (1845–1908), physician and women's rights activist  

Padma Anagol

Phipson, (Mary) Edith Pechey- (1845–1908), physician and women's rights activist, was born Mary Edith Pechey on 7 October 1845 in the village of Langham, near Colchester, Essex, the sixth child and third daughter of the Revd William Pechey (d. 1888), Baptist minister at ...

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Roget, Peter Mark (1779–1869), physician and philologist  

T. Jock Murray

Roget, Peter Mark (1779–1869), physician and philologist, was born in Broad Street, Soho, London, on 18 January 1779. He was the only son of John Roget (d. 1783), a native of Geneva and pastor of the French protestant church in Threadneedle Street, London...

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Wylie, Sir James, first baronet (1768–1854), physician  

John B. Wilson

Wylie, Sir James, first baronet (1768–1854), physician, was born in Kincardine-on-Forth, Perthshire, on 13 November 1768, the second child of William Wylie (or Willie), a carrier, and Janet Meiklejohn. He studied medicine at Edinburgh for a number of years, but was awarded his MD by ...