Daniel Lysons M.D. (1727–1800) was an English academic and physician.

Life

Born on 21 March 1727, he was the eldest son of Daniel Lysons of Hempstead Court,

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, by Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Mee of

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. He matriculated at Oxford as a

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on 2 March 1745, graduating B.A. in 1750, and M.A. in 1751; and was elected a Fellow of

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, where he proceeded B.C.L. in 1755. On 6 July 1756 Lysons was licensed to practise medicine, and in 1759 he became D.C.L., a degree he commuted for that of M.D. on 24 October 1769. He practised for a few years at Gloucester, and was physician to the infirmary there. About 1770 he settled at

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and in 1780 was elected one of the physicians to the Bath General Hospital. He died at Bath on 20 March 1800.

Works

Lysons published: * ''An Essay upon the Effects of Camphire and Calomel in Continual Fevers. ... To which is added an occasional Observation upon … Inoculation'', London, 1771. * ''Practical Essays upon Intermitting Fevers, Dropsies, Diseases of the Liver'', Bath, 1772. * ''Farther Observations on the Effects of Camphire and Calomel … Being an Appendix to Essays upon these Subjects formerly published'', Bath, 1777.

Family

By his marriage, on 6 December 1768, to Mary, daughter of Richard Rogers of

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, Gloucestershire, Lysons had no issue. He left his fortune to

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(1762–1834), his nephew.

Notes

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