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Robert Harrison (1793–23 April 1858) M.R.C.S. I., M.R.I.A. was an

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surgeon and

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. He was the president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (

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) in 1848. Cameron, Sir Charles A. (1886
''History of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and of the Irish Schools of Medicine &c''
Dublin: Fannin & Co. pp. 399-400.RCSI Presidents since its foundation in 1784.
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2018.

Biography

Robert Harrison was born in Cumberland,

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, in 1793 and was sent to study at

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, where he graduated with a degree in the arts. He was

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to the surgeon Abraham Colles and commenced medical studies in the

medical school.

Career

In 1818, Harrison was elected a member of

. In 1817, he was appointed Demonstrator in

and was elected Professor of

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and

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in 1827. In 1824, he took the degree of M.B., and in 1837 that of

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He was appointed Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the School of Physics at

in 1837. He was a surgeon at

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and a consultant surgeon at Jervis Street Charitable Infirmary. Harrison was for many years one of the Honorary Secretaries to the Royal Dublin Society. Harrison published ''Surgical Anatomy of the Arteries'' in two volumes in 1824, and it was considered a significant textbook at the time, running five editions. This was followed by another textbook, ''The Dublin Dissector Manual of Anatomy'', later editions of which were published in

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and New York.

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