Henry Cullen

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

FRCPE (17581790) was a Scottish physician. He was chair and professor of medicine at the

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. From 1776 until his death in 1790 he was a physician-in-ordinary to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

Life

Born in

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, the son of eminent physician and chemist

William Cullen William Cullen FRS FRSE FRCPE FPSG (; 15 April 17105 February 1790) was a Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist, and professor at the Edinburgh Medical School. Cullen was a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment: He was Dav ...

(1710-1790) and Anne Johnstone (d.1786). His older brother was the Robert Cullen, later Lord Cullen. The family lived in Mint Close on The Canongate, home of the old Scottish Mint. He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh and then studied medicine at

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graduating MD in 1780. A member of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh when it received its

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, he also was a founding Fellow of the

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in 1783, as was his brother Robert Cullen. He died in

on 11 October 1790 at age 32.

References

1758 births 1790 deaths Medical doctors from Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Edinburgh 18th-century Scottish medical doctors Members of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh Founder Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Physicians of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh {{Scotland-med-bio-stub