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CLARK, SIR ANDREW

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 441 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLARK, See also:SIR See also:ANDREW , See also:Bart. (1826-1893), See also:British physician, was See also:born at See also:Aberdeen on the 28th of See also:October 1826. His See also:father, who also was a medical See also:man, died when he was only a few years ' See Capt. C. R. See also:Day, op. cit. p. Io6. 2 V. Mahillon, Catal. desc. (188o), p. 182, refers his statement to the See also:Chevalier L. de Burbure. Das neu-eroffnete Ore/See also:tester (See also:Hamburg, 1713).

Mahillon, Catal. desc. (188o), vol. i. p. 182. s See Chevalier See also:

Ludwig von Koechel, See also:Die kaiserliche Hofmusikkapelle zu Wien, 1543–1867 (See also:Vienna, 1869). ` In the See also:Italian edition of 1769 the See also:part is scored for See also:clarinet.old. After attending school in Aberdeen, he was sent by his guardians to See also:Dundee and apprenticed to a druggist; then returning to Aberdeen he began his medical studies in the university of that See also:city. Soon, however, he went to See also:Edinburgh, where in the extra-academical school he had a student's career of the most brilliant description, ultimately becoming assistant to J. See also:Hughes See also:Bennett in the pathological See also:department of the Royal Infirmary, and assistant demonstrator of See also:anatomy to See also:Robert See also:Knox. But symptoms of pulmonary See also:phthisis brought his See also:academic See also:life to a See also:close, and in the See also:hope that the See also:sea might benefit his See also:health he joined the medical department of the See also:navy in 1848. Next See also:year he became pathologist to the Haslar See also:hospital, where T. H. See also:Huxley was one of his colleagues, and in 1853 he was the successful See also:candidate for the newly-instituted See also:post of See also:curator to the museum of the See also:London hospital.

Here he intended to devote all his energies to See also:

pathology, but circumstances brought him into active medical practice. In 1854, the year in which he took his See also:doctor's degree at Aberdeen, the post of assistant-physician to the hospital became vacant and he was prevailed. upon to apply for it. He was foted of telling how his phthisical tendencies gained him the See also:appointment. " He is only a poor Scotch doctor," it was said, " with but a few months to live; let him have it." He had it, and two years before his See also:death publicly declared that of those who were on the See also:staff of the hospital at the See also:time of his selection he was the only one remaining alive. In 1854 he became a member of the See also:College of Physicians, and in 1858 a See also:fellow, and then went in See also:succession through all the offices of See also:honour the college has to offer, ending in 1888 with the See also:presidency, which he continued to hold till his death. From the time of his selection as assistant physician to the London hospital, his fame rapidly See also:grew until he became a fashionable doctor with one of the largest practices in London, counting among his patients some of the most distinguished men of the day. The See also:great number of persons who passed through his consulting-See also:room every See also:morning rendered it inevitable that to a large extent his See also:advice should become stereotyped and his prescriptions often reduced to See also:mere stock formulae, but in really serious cases he was not to be surpassed in the skill and carefulness of his diagnosis and in his See also:attention to detail. In spite of the claims of his practice he found time to produce a See also:good many books, all written in the precise and polished See also:style on which he used to See also:pride himself. Doubtless owing largely to See also:personal reasons, See also:lung diseases and especially fibroid phthisis formed his favourite theme, but he also discussed other subjects, such as renal inadequacy, See also:anaemia, See also:constipation, &c. He died in London on the 6th of See also:November 1893, after a paralytic stroke which was probably the result of persistent overwork.

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