Andrew Wynter (1819- 12 May 1876,

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) was an

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physician and author. Born in

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, Wynter studied medicine at

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and set up a London practice. He edited the ''

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'' 1845–60, took a M.D. in 1853 and became a member of the

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in 1861. Wynter was a frequent contributor to periodicals, including ''

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'', the ''

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'', ''

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,'' the ''

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'', the ''

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'', the '' London Review'', ''

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'', and '' Once a Week''. Many of his contributions were collected and reissued as books. As a doctor, Wynter specialized in

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, taking wealthy patients as residents at his Chiswick home.

Works

* ''Pictures of Town from my Mental Camera'' (1855), by 'Werdna Retnyw' * ''Odds and Ends from an Old Drawer'' (1855), by 'Werdna Retnyw' * ''Curiosities of Civilisation: being Essays from the Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews'' (1860) * ''Our Social Bees: Pictures of Town and Country, and other Essays'' (1861) * ''Subtle Brains and Lissom Fingers: being some of the Chisel-Marks of our Industrial and Scientific Progress'' (1863; 1877 enlarged ed., revised by Andrew Steinmetz) * ''Curiosities of Toil'' (1870) * ''Peeps into the Human Hive'' (1874, 2 vols) * ''Fruit between the Leaves'' (1875, 2 vols) * ''The Borderlands of Insanity and other Allied Papers'' (1875; 1877 enlarged ed., revised by J. M. Granville)

References

* P. W. J. Bartrip
‘Wynter, Andrew (1819–1876)’
''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 11 Sept 2007 * S. A. Allibone, ''A critical dictionary of English literature'', 1859–71

External links

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