Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 (physician and botanist)

Person

Dates

Existence: 1683 - 1760

Biography

Charles Alston was born at Eddlewood (now part of Hamilton). He was educated in Glasgow, and then went to Leyden in the Netherlands to study medicine under Hermann Boerhaave (1668-1738). There he met Dr. Alexander Monro, primus (1697-1767). Together, on their return to Edinburgh, they revived medical lectures at the University with Alston being appointed Lecturer in Botany and Materia Medica. He was also Superintendent of the Botanic Garden. Alston published various medical papers and an index to the plants in the Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. In hisTirocinium Botanicum Edinburgense(1753), he attacked the Linnaean system of classification. Dr. Charles Alston died on 22 November 1760.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Notes of Lectures on Materia Medica by Charles Alston

Fonds — Volume Dk.7.1

Identifier: Coll-2214

Scope and Contents

Lectures on materia medica and "methodus praescribendi" by Charles Alston, Edinburgh 24 April 1736. Printed rules of the Belfast Medical Library (Ulster Medical Society) February 1829, pasted inside upper board.

Dates: 1736

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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