biography
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| lived:
| (1798–1869)
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| biography:
| Physiologist, medical educator, and writer, born in Keswick, Cumbria, NW England, UK. After he had established a reputation in medical circles in Europe, he was invited by President Thomas Jefferson to teach at the University of Virginia (1825). In 1833 he went to the University of Maryland and then joined the faculty of the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia (1836–68). His books include Human Physiology (1832) and A New Dictionary of Medical Science and Literature (1833). |
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