William Addison FRS (1803 – 26 September 1881) was a British physician. He was elected

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathemati ...

on 29 January 1846. He studied

hematology Hematology ( always spelled haematology in British English) is the branch of medicine concerned with the study of the cause, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases related to blood. It involves treating diseases that affect the produc ...

. He delivered the

Goulstonian Lecture The Goulstonian Lectures are an annual lecture series given on behalf of the Royal College of Physicians in London. They began in 1639. The lectures are named for Theodore Goulston (or Gulston, died 1632), who founded them with a bequest A bequ ...

at the

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in 1859 on the subject of ''Fevers and Infammation''. He died in Brighton.

Works

"On the Effects of Produced in Human Blood-corpuscules by Sherry Wine"
''Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'', Volume 10, Printed by Taylor and Francis, 1860
"The Law of Morphology of Metamorphosis of the Textures of the Human Body"
''The Lancet'', Volume 1, UM-MEDSEARCH Gateway, J. Onwhyn, 1847
''National Center for Biotechnology Information''"On Inflammation"
''British Medical Journal'', Volume 2, British Medical Association, 1873 *''Cell Therapeutics'', London: Churchill 1856 "The Dublin quarterly journal of medical science"
Volume 21, Hodges and Smith, 1856.

References

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