Research Catalog

Title

William Cullen and the eighteenth century medical world : a bicentenary exhibition and symposium arranged by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1990 / edited by A. Doig, J.P.S. Ferguson, I.A. Milne and R. Passmore.

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Passmore, R. (Reginald)
• Doig, A. (Andrew)
• Ferguson, Joan.
• Milne, Iain.

Description

xiii, 256 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm

Summary

• William Cullen (1710-1790) was a key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. He was a friend of Adam Smith and David Hume but his achievements have not been so well recognised. Cullen was a great teacher who explored the relationship between medicine and science in a spirit of liberal inquiry and he played a major role in establishing the Edinburgh of his day as the world's foremost medical centre.
• He attracted many students from overseas, and the medical schools and institutions founded by his pupils set the pattern for medicine in North America.
• Cullen was born in Hamilton and educated at Glasgow, where he became Professor of Medicine before moving to Edinburgh to take up a sequence of professorships at the University. Like a true lad o' pairts he became First Physician to the King in Scotland and President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. In addition he was a founder member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
• This book follows an exhibition and a symposium held to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Cullen's death and restores Cullen to his rightful place in both the Scottish Enlightenment and the history of medicine and science.

Subjects

• Scotland
• Biography
• Physicians
• Medicine
• Congress
• Exhibition
• Biography and autobiography
• History, 18th Century

Genre/Form

• Exhibition.
• Congress.
• Biography.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The Exhibition. Boyhood in Lanarkshire. General practice in Hamilton. University of Glasgow. Chemistry and agriculture. Cullen's patrons. Infirmary and University teaching in Edinburgh. Bibliophile and author. Cullen's influence on American medicine. Cullen was their mentor. Royal Medical Society. Cullen's Edinburgh - the Old Town. Cullen's Edinburgh - the New Town. Biography and remembrances / A. Doig, J.P.S. Ferguson and I.A. Milne -- The Symposium -- 1. T. William Cullen in eighteenth century medicine / C. Clayson -- 2. William Cullen and the practice of chemistry / J.R.R. Christie -- 3. Philosophy and method in Cullen's medical teaching / M. Barfoot -- 4. Cullen as clinician: organisation and strategies of an eighteenth century medical practice / G.B. Risse -- 5. Cullen and the nervous system / W.F. Bynum -- 6. General practice in Hamilton: Baillie Cullen - country doctor extraordinaire / E.G. Buckley -- 7. William Cullen and dietetics / R. Passmore.
• 8. Medical men, politicians and the medical schools at Glasgow and Edinburgh 1685-1803 / R.L. Emerson -- 9. William Cullen's Synopsis Nosologiae Methodicae / R.E. Kendell -- 10. Cullen's influence on American medicine / J.M. O'Donnell -- 11. The first forty years of the Royal Medical Society and the part William Cullen played in it / D.C. Macarthur.

ISBN

0748603026 :

LCCN

gb 91088315

OCLC

ocm24753970

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries