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See also:CULLEN, W .
See also:Glasgow surgeon, and after completing his See also:apprenticeship he became surgeon to a See also:merchant See also:vessel trading between See also:London and the See also:West Indies. On his return to See also:Scotland in 1732 he settled as a practitioner in the See also:parish of See also:Shotts, See also:Lanarkshire, and in 1734–1736 studied See also:medicine at See also:Edinburgh, where he was one of the founders of the Royal Medical Society. In 1736 he began to practise in See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton, where he rapidly acquired a high reputation. From 1737 to 1740 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:Hunter was his See also:resident See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil, and at one 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 they proposed to enter into See also:partnership. In 1740 Cullen took the degree of M.D. at Glasgow, whither he removed in 1744. During his See also:residence at Hamilton, besides the arduous duties of medical practice, he found time to devote to the study of the natural sciences, and especially of See also:chemistry. On coming to Glasgow he appears to have begun to lecture in connexion with the university, the medical school of which was as yet imperfectly organized. Besides the subjects of theory and practice of medicine, he lectured systematically on See also:botany, materia medica and chemistry. His See also:great abilities, See also:enthusiasm and See also:power of conveying instruction made him a successful and highly popular teacher, and his classes increased largely in See also:numbers. At the same time he diligently pursued the practice of his profession. Chemistry was the subject which at this time seems to have engaged the greatest See also:share of his See also:attention. He was himself a diligent investigator and experimenter, and he did much to encourage See also:original See also:research among his pupils, one of whom was Dr See also:Joseph See also:Black. In 1751 he was appointed See also:professor of medicine, but continued to lecture on chemistry, and in 1756 he was elected See also:joint professor of chemistry at Edinburgh along with See also:Andrew Plummer, on whose See also:death in the following See also:year the See also:sole See also:appointment was conferred on Cullen. This See also:chair he held for ten years—his classes always increasing in numbers. He also practised his profession as a physician with eminent success. From 1757 he delivered lectures on clinical medicine in the Royal Infirmary. This was a See also:work for which his experience, habits of observation, and scientific training peculiarly fitted him, and in which his popularity as a teacher, no less than his power as a See also:practical physician, became more than ever conspicuous. On the death of See also:Charles See also:Alston in 176o, Cullen at the See also:request of the students undertook to finish his course of lectures on materia medica; he delivered an entirely new course, which were published in an unauthorized edition in 1771, but which he re-wrote and issued as A See also:Treatise on Materia Medica in 1789.
On the death of See also:Robert Whytt (1714-1766), the professor of the institutes of medicine, Cullen accepted the chair, at the same time resigning that of chemistry. In the same year he'had been an unsuccessful See also:candidate for the professorship of the practice of physic, but subsequently an arrangement was made between him and See also:John See also:- GREGORY
- GREGORY (Gregorius)
- GREGORY (Grigorii) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1734-1783)
- GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN (1850-19o9)
- GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT (1774—1841)
- GREGORY, ST (c. 213-C. 270)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NAZIANZUS (329–389)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NYSSA (c.331—c. 396)
- GREGORY, ST, OF TOURS (538-594)
Gregory, who had gained the appointment, by which they agreed to deliver alternate courses on the theory and practice of physic. This arrangement proved eminently satisfactory, but it was brought to a See also:close by the sudden death of Gregory in 1773. Cullen was then appointed sole professor of the practice of physic, and he continued in this See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office till a few months before his death, which took See also:place on the 5th of See also:February 1790.
As a lecturer Cullen appears to have stood unrivalled in his See also:day. His clearness of statement and power of imparting See also:interest to the most abstruse topics were the conspicuous features of his teaching, and in his various capacities as a scientific lecturer, a physiologist, and a practical physician, he was ever surrounded with large and increasing classes of intelligent pupils, to whom his eminently suggestive mode of instruction was specially attractive. Living at the time he did, when the doctrines of the humoral pathologists were carried to an extreme extent, and witnessing the ravages which disease made on the solid structures of the See also:body, it was not surprising that he should oppose a See also:doctrine which appeared to him to See also:lead to a false practice and to fatal results, and adopt one which attributed more to the agency of the solids and very little to that of the fluids of the body. His See also:chief See also:works were First Lines of the Practice of Physic (1774); Institutions of Medicine (1710); and Svno¢sis
Nosologicae Medieae (1785), which contained his See also:classification of diseases into four great classes—( I) Pyrexiae, or febrile diseases, as typhus See also:fever; (2) Neuroses, or See also:nervous diseases, as See also:epilepsy; (3) Cachexiae, or diseases resulting from See also:bad See also:habit of body, as See also:scurvy; and (4) Locales, or See also:local diseases, as See also:cancer.
Cullen's eldest son Robert became a Scottish See also:judge in 1796 under the See also:title of See also:Lord Cullen, and was known for his See also:powers of See also:mimicry.
The first See also:volume of an See also:account of Cullen's See also:Life, Lectures and Writings was published by Dr John See also:Thomson in 1832, and was re-issued with the second volume (completing the work) by Drs W. Thomson and D. See also:Craigie in 1859.
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