John Yelloly (30 April 1774 – 31 January 1842) was an English physician.

Life

Yelloly was born at

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, Northumberland, and was the youngest and sole survivor of seven children. His father died when his youngest child was an infant, and Yelloly owed his home education to his mother Jane, sister of

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, of the family of Davison of Whittingham. He was sent to the grammar school of Alnwick, and then to the

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, where he graduated M.D. in 1799. He settled in London in 1800, and in 1807 became physician to the

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, an office which he retained till 1818. Yelloly with Alexander John Gaspard Marcet founded 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 the ...

in 1805, and he and Charles Aikin were the first secretaries of the society. The formation of the library was mainly due to his efforts. He was elected a

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in 1814. He went to live at

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, near Norwich, in 1818, and became physician in 1820 to the

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. He retired from practice, being wealthy, in 1832, and then resided at Woodton Hall, near Norwich. He was thrown onto his head from a phaeton in April 1840, and became in consequence paralysed on the right side. On 28 January 1842 this was followed by an

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attack and paralysis of the left side, of which he died at Cavendish Hall, Suffolk, on 31 January 1842. In 1806 he married the daughter of Samuel Tyssen of

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, Norfolk, by whom he left children. He was elected a fellow of the

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Works

Yelloly and published in the ''

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'' for 1829 "Remarks on the Tendency to Calculous Diseases", a work based on the museum of stones extracted from the bladder in Norwich Hospital. He published a further work on the same subject in 1830, and a pamphlet ''On Arrangements connected with the Medical Relief of the Sick Poor'' in 1837. He read before the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society seven papers, of which two deal with paralysis due to tumour of the brain.

References

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