Andrew Whyte Barclay
MD (1817–1884), was a Scottish physician.
Biography
Barclay was born at
Dysart, Fife
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, and educated at the
High School of Edinburgh
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. He studied medicine at the
University of Edinburgh
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, and after visiting Berlin and Paris took the MD degree in 1839. He later attended
Caius College, Cambridge
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, graduating MB in 1847 and MD in 1852.
He was elected assistant physician to
St George's Hospital in 1857, and devoted much attention to the interests of the medical school, lecturing on medicine, and serving as physician from 1862 to 1882.
At the
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he was examiner in medicine, councillor, censor,
Lumleian lecturer
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, and
Harveian orator
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(for 1881), being elected treasurer in 1884. He was president of the
Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society
The Medical and Chirurgical Society of London was a learned society of physicians and surgeons which was founded in 1805 by 26 personalities in these fields who had left the Medical Society of London (founded 1773) because of disagreement with th ...
for the year 1881, and contributed to the transactions of that society two papers on heart disease. He was shrewd and cautious as a physician, concise and polished as a writer.
Works
''A Manual of Medical Diagnosis.''* ''On Medical Errors.''
* ''On Gout and Rheumatism in relation to Diseases of the Heart.''
References
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1817 births
1884 deaths
19th-century Scottish medical doctors
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Barclay
Scottish medical writers
19th-century Scottish writers
People from Dysart, Fife