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    Robert Whytt (1714–1766) was a Scottish physician. His work, on unconscious reflexes, tubercular meningitis, urinary bladder stones, and hysteria, is remembered...
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    with the work and research of many neurologists such as Thomas Willis, Robert Whytt, Matthew Baillie, Charles Bell, Moritz Heinrich Romberg, Duchenne de...
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  • medicine. A detailed description was given by the Scottish physician Robert Whytt in 1765, and the term "gelastic seizure" was coined in 1898 by the French...
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    rejected and it took another 162 years before Robert Koch demonstrated it to be true. In 1768, Robert Whytt gave the first clinical description of tuberculosis...
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    his part in the Pentland Rising Patrick Wilson (1798–1871), architect Robert Whytt (1714–1766), physician and president of the Royal College of Physicians...
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  • Lewis Balfour (category Robert Louis Stevenson)
    the author Robert Louis Stevenson. Balfour was born on 30 August 1777 at Pilrig House between Edinburgh and Leith, the son of Jean Whytt (1750–1833)...
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    "dropsy in the brain", is often attributed to Edinburgh physician Sir Robert Whytt in a posthumous report that appeared in 1768, although the link with...
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  • Friedrich Otto Westphal 1833 - 1890 Germany Edinger–Westphal nucleus W Robert Whytt 1714 - 1766 United Kingdom W Thomas Willis 1621 - 1675 United Kingdom Circle...
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  • with influential teachers including William Cullen (1710–1790) and Robert Whytt (1714–1766) emphasising the clinical importance of psychiatric disorders...
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  • César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (died 1784) September 6 – Robert Whytt, Scottish physician (died 1766) October 16 – Giovanni Arduino, Italian...
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  • with influential teachers including William Cullen (1710–1790) and Robert Whytt (1714–1766) emphasising the clinical importance of psychiatric disorders...
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    Scotland, the son of Rev Andrew Melville, a clergyman, and Helen Whytt, sister of Dr. Robert Whytt. As a member of the noble Melville family, he was related...
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    and issued as A Treatise on Materia Medica in 1789. On the death of Robert Whytt, the professor of the institutes of medicine, in 1766, Cullen accepted...
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  • Waterhouse, surgeon and lecturer in anatomy Hamish Watson, cardiology Robert Whytt, medicine Sir Ian Wilmut, embryologist and former supervisor of the team...
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  • Edinger–Westphal nucleus Victor P. Whittaker 1919–2016 United Kingdom Robert Whytt 1714–1766 United Kingdom Torsten Wiesel 1924– Sweden Nobel Prize in Physiology...
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  • studied under Alexander Monro I and Alexander Monro II, John Rutherford, Robert Whytt, and William Cullen. He graduated M.D. with the inaugural thesis ‘De...
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    Annan, Dumfriesshire, and studied medicine at Edinburgh, chiefly under Robert Whytt, graduating M.D. in 1750. After a visit to Paris he settled at Kidderminster...
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  • medical history. His Ph.D. thesis on the career of the Scottish physician Robert Whytt was supervised by Alistair Cameron Crombie. As a postdoc, French was...
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    Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). "Batty, Robert (1763?–1849)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 3. London: Smith...
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  • yet written. Young's legacy is also apparent in the work of his pupil Robert Whytt (1714–1766) and his surgical apprentice James Hill (1703–1776). Young...
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    Episcopal Church at the west end of Princes Street. Following the work of Robert Whytt and Marshall Hall, Laycock studied the reflex arc in relation to the...
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  • office) Inter Regnum due to war 1946–1973 Robert Walmsley 1973–1996 David Brynmor Thomas 2003–2014 Robert Hugh MacDougall 2014-present David Christopher...
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  • James Balfour was his father's paternal grandfather, and the physician Robert Whytt was his father's maternal grandfather. His father had married Anne Mackintosh...
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    Balfour, professor of moral philosophy at Edinburgh in 1754, and of Robert Whytt, a celebrated medical writer and professor of physiology at Edinburgh...
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    proposer being Sir Robert Christison. He won the Society's Makdougall Brisbane Prize for the period 1860-62 for his memoir of Robert Whytt. Over and above...
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  • her brothers James Balfour and the bookseller John Balfour, and also Robert Whytt and Gavin Hamilton who had married Bridget's sisters. At the end of the...
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    Neuroimaging 2002–present Internationally recognised expert in neuroimaging Robert Whytt 1734 President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, first...
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  • S. History of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, p.1076 "Sir Robert Philip". The Scotsman. Retrieved 5 November 2015. Lee, Thomas Alexander...
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    the 12th of April 1825". Archive.org. 2023. Retrieved 4 December 2023. "Robert Hamilton". Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. 2023. Retrieved 12 February...
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  • Links. 14 April – Adam Gib, religious leader (died 1788) 6 September – Robert Whytt, physician (died 1766) 25 October (bapt.) – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo...
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