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Alexander Keiller (physician)
Alexander Keiller FRSE LLD (11 November 1811 – 26 September 1892) was a Scottish physician and gynaecologist who served as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 1875–77. Life Alexander Keiller was born in Arbroath on 11 November 1811 the fourth child of John Keiller (born 1768), a merchant and his wife, Isabella Anderson. He qualified LRCSE in 1833, and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh shortly afterwards. He graduated MD from the University of .St. Andrews in 1835 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE) in 1849. He set up in medical practice in Dundee, but after seven years moved to Edinburgh, where he soon established a large practice, specialising in midwifery and the diseases of women and children. He was active as a lecturer in the Edinburgh Extramural School of Medicine lecturing on midwifery, diseases of children, medicine and medical jurisprudence. He was appointed as ordinary ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
