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QUAIN, SIR RICHARD, BART

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QUAIN, See also:SIR See also:RICHARD, See also:BART . (1816-1898), Irish physician, was See also:born at See also:Mallow-on-the-See also:Blackwater, Co. See also:Cork, on the 3oth of See also:October 1816. He received his See also:early See also:education at See also:Cloyne, and was then apprenticed to a surgeon-See also:apothecary in See also:Limerick. In 1837 he entered University See also:College, See also:London, where he graduated with high honours as M.B. in 1840, and as M.D. (See also:gold See also:medal) in 1842. Six years later he was chosen an assistant-physician to the See also:Brompton See also:Hospital for Diseases of the See also:Chest, and with that institution he retained his connexion until his See also:death, first as full (1855) and subsequently as consulting physician (1875). He became a See also:fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1851, and filled almost every See also:post of See also:honour it could offer except the See also:presidency, in the contest for which he was beaten by Sir See also:Andrew See also:Clark in 1888. He became physician-extraordinary to See also:Queen See also:Victoria in 189o, and was created a See also:baronet in the following See also:year. He died in London on the 13th of See also:March 1898. Quain, who was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1871, was the author of several See also:memoirs, dealing for the most See also:part with disorders of the See also:heart, but his name will be best remembered by the See also:Dictionary of See also:Medicine, the preparation of which occupied him from 1875 to 1882 (2nd edition, 1894; 3rd, 1902). He sat on the Royal See also:Commission on See also:Rinderpest (See also:cattle See also:plague) in 1865.

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cousin of See also:Jones Quain (1796–1865), the author of Quain's Elements of See also:Anatomy, and of Richard Quain (1800–1887), who was See also:president of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1868, and See also:left l75,0oo to University College, London, with which the Quain professorships of See also:botany, See also:English See also:language and literature, See also:law, and physics were endowed. A See also:half-See also:brother of the last two, Sir See also:John Richard Quain (1816-1876), was appointed a See also:judge of the Queen's See also:Bench in 1871.

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