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See also:CHRISTISON, See also:SIR See also:ROBERT , See also:Bart. (1797–1882), Scottish toxicologist and physician, was See also:born in See also:Edinburgh on the 18th of See also:July 1797. After graduating at the university of that See also:city in 1819, he spent a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in See also:London, studying under See also:John
See also:Abernethy and Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence, and in See also:Paris, where he learnt See also:analytical See also:chemistry from P. J. Robiquet and See also:toxicology from M. J. B. See also:Orfila. In 1822 he returned to Edinburgh as See also:professor of medical See also:jurisprudence, and set to See also:work to organize the study of his subject on a See also:sound basis. On poisons in particular he speedily became a high authority; his well-known See also:treatise on them was published in 1829, and in the course of his inquiries he did not hesitate to try such daring experiments on himself as taking large doses of See also:Calabar See also:bean: His attainments in medical jurisprudence and toxicology procured him the See also:appointment, in 1829, of medical officer to the See also:crown in See also:Scotland, and from that time till 1866 he was called as a See also:witness in many celebrated criminal cases. In 1832 he gave up the See also:chair of medical jurisprudence and accepted that of See also:medicine and See also:therapeutics, which he held till 1877; at the same time he became professor of clinical medicine, and continued in that capacity till 1855. His fame as a toxicologist and medical jurist, together with his work on the See also:pathology of the kidneys and on fevers, secured him a large private practice, and he succeeded to a See also:fair See also:share of the honours that commonly attend the successful physician, being appointed physician to See also:Queen See also:Victoria in 1848 and receiving a baronetcy in 1871. Among the books which he published were a treatise on Granular Degeneration of the Kidneys (1839), and a Commentary on the Pharmacopoeias of See also:Great See also:Britain (1842). Sir Robert Christison, who retained remarkable See also:physical vigour and activity down to extreme old See also:age, died at Edinburgh on the 23rd of See also:January 1882.
See the See also:Life by his sons (1885—1886).
End of Article: CHRISTISON, SIR ROBERT
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