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See also:HEBERDEN, 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 (1710-1801) , See also:English physician, was See also:born in See also:London in 1710. In the end of 1724 he was sent to St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he obtained a fellowship about 1730, became See also:master of arts in 1732, and took the degree of M.D. in 1739. He remained at Cambridge nearly ten years longer practising See also:medicine, and gave an See also:annual course of lectures on materia medica. In 1746 he became a See also:fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London; and two years later he settled in London. where he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1749, and enjoyed an extensive medical practice for more than See also:thirty years. At the See also:age of seventy-two he partially retired, spending his summers at a See also:house which he had taken at See also:Windsor. but he continued to practise in London during the See also:winter for some years longer. In 1778 he was made an honorary member of the See also:Paris Royal Society of Medicine. He died in London on the 17th of May 1801. Heberden, who was a See also:good classical See also:scholar, published several papers in the Phil. Trans. of the Royal Society, and among his noteworthy contributions to the Medical Transactions (issued, largely at his See also:suggestion, by the College of Physicians) were papers on chicken-pox (1767) and angina pectoris (1768). His See also:Commentarii de morborum historia et curatione, the result of careful notes made in his See also:pocket-See also:book at the bedside of his patients, were published in 1802; in the following See also:year an English See also:translation appeared, believed to be from the See also:pen of his son, William Heberden (1767-1845), also a distinguished scholar and physician, who attended See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:George III. in his last illness.
End of Article: HEBERDEN, WILLIAM (1710-1801)
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