Dr Andrew Duncan M.D.President of the Royal College of Physicians and Professor of Theory of Medicine at Edinburgh. Born in St Andrews, studied medicine at Edinburgh and worked as a ship's surgeon for the East India Company. He founded the Royal Public Dispensary, the Caledonian Horticultural Society and the Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum. He was inspired by the death of the Poet Robert Ferguson in the Bedlam.
No comments:
Post a Comment