Edward Harrison (1766,
Lancashire
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– 6 May 1838,
Marlborough
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) was a British
physician
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who described
Harrison's groove
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it is usually caused by chronic asthma or obstructive respiratory disease. It m ...
. He studied in
London
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under
John
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and
William Hunter, and in
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where he received his doctorate in 1784. He practised in
Horncastle, Lincolnshire
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for 30 years, founding the Horncastle Dispensary and the Lincolnshire Medical Benevolent Society. He was an advocate of medical reform, reporting on the lack of regulation of physicians, surgeons and apothecaries, and suggesting that regulation of education and licensing was needed. This plan was thwarted by opposition from the
Royal College of Physicians
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. He also founded the first infirmary for spinal diseases in London in 1837.
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