Andrew Whyte Barclay MD (1817–1884), was a Scottish physician.

Biography

Barclay was born at

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, and educated at the

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. He studied medicine at the

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, and after visiting Berlin and Paris took the MD degree in 1839. He later attended

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, graduating MB in 1847 and MD in 1852. He was elected assistant physician to

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in 1857, and devoted much attention to the interests of the medical school, lecturing on medicine, and serving as physician from 1862 to 1882. At the

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he was examiner in medicine, councillor, censor, Lumleian lecturer, and

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(for 1881), being elected treasurer in 1884. He was president of the

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for the year 1881, and contributed to the transactions of that society two papers on heart disease. He was shrewd and cautious as a physician, concise and polished as a writer.

Works

''A Manual of Medical Diagnosis.''
* ''On Medical Errors.'' * ''On Gout and Rheumatism in relation to Diseases of the Heart.''

References

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