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Alison, William Pulteney

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Identifier: GD1-4

Scope and Contents

Notes by unidentified student from lectures by W. P. Alison on the Institutes of Medicine 1828 and 1830

Dates

  • Creation: 1828-1830

Language of Materials

English.

Conditions Governing Access

None

Biographical / Historical

Born in 1790. Alison graduated MD from Edinburgh University in 1811, and became physician to the New Town Dispensary in 1815. He successively held the Chairs of Medical Jurisprudence, Institutes of Medicine and Practice of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh from 1820-1855, and served as first physician to the Queen in Scotland. Alison died in 1859.

Extent

2 items: papers

Arrangement

Chronological within record class

Other Finding Aids

Manual item-level descriptive list available

Custodial History

Unknown

Immediate Source of Acquisition

W. Tait, Edinburgh, October 1982

Accruals

No further accessions are expected

Bibliography

Alison, William P. Outlines of Physiology. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1831Alison, William Pulteney. Outlines of Physiology and Pathology. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1833
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Repository Details

Part of the Lothian Health Services Archive Repository

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