Robert James Nicholl Streeten (born 28 June 1800, London – 10 May 1849,

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) was a British physician and medical editor and secretary of the

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. The eldest of eight (or perhaps nine) children of John Mitchell Streeten and Maria Streeten (née Crane), Robert J. N. Streeten was educated at home until he matriculated at the

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in 1820. After studying there until 1822, Robert Streeten studied in Paris in 1822–1823 and returned in 1823 to Edinburgh, graduating in 1824 M.D. Edin. with doctoral thesis ''De delirio tremente''. At Edinburgh he became clinical clerk to the physician and botanist Robert Graham (whom he accompanied on a walking tour to the

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). Soon after taking his degree, Streeten was appointed a physician to the Worcester Royal Infirmary and was soon elected a member of "Physicians to the Dispensary" (''i.e.'' Fellow of the

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). In 1836 he became a member of the

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. In 1846 he became a Fellow of the

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. Streeten was the editor-in-chief of the ''Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal'' from 1844 until his death in 1849.
''Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal, 1844''

Family life

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on 16 November 1829, Robert Streeten married Emily Sherwood (1811–1833), a daughter of the author Mary Martha Sherwood. With her mother at her bedside, Emily Sherwood Streeten died on 8 October 1833.

Selected publications

* with A. W. Davis
"On the Misseltoe."
The Analyst: a quarterly journal of science, literature, natural history, and the fine arts, no. 6 (1835): 381–387.
"On the Progressive Development of the Vegetable Organization."
The Analyst: a quarterly journal of science, literature, natural history, and the fine arts, vol. 2, no. 11 (1835): 287–300.

References

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