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9 February 1773. (1773-02-10) (aged 48) Edinburgh. Education. University of Aberdeen University of Edinburgh. Occupation (s) Scottish physician, medical writer and moralist. John Gregory (3 June 1724 – 9 February 1773), a.k.a. John Gregorie, was an eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment physician, medical writer and moralist.
Anatomy, Obstetrics. William Hunter's microscope, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. William Hunter FRS (23 May 1718 – 30 March 1783) was a Scottish anatomist and physician. He was a leading teacher of anatomy, and the outstanding obstetrician of his day. His guidance and training of his equally famous brother, John Hunter, was also of great importance.
Scottish physician. William Buchan (1729 – 25 February 1805) was a Scottish physician and writer. He is best known for his work Domestic Medicine: or, a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines, which provided laypeople with detailed descriptions of the causes and prevention of diseases.
William Cullen. William Cullen FRS FRSE FRCPE (/ ˈkʌlən /; 15 April 1710 – 5 February 1790) was a Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist, and professor at the Edinburgh Medical School. [3] Cullen was a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment: He was David Hume 's physician, and was friends with Joseph Black, Henry Home, Adam ...
Alexander Gordon (physician) Alexander Gordon MA, MD (20 May 1752 – 19 October 1799) was a Scottish obstetrician best known for clearly demonstrating the contagious nature of puerperal sepsis (childbirth fever). By systematically recording details of all visits to women with the condition, he concluded that it was spread from patient to ...
John Hunter (surgeon) John Hunter FRS (13 February 1728 – 16 October 1793) was a Scottish surgeon, one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific methods in medicine. He was a teacher of, and collaborator with, Edward Jenner, pioneer of the smallpox vaccine.
Early modern Scotland was a patriarchal society, in which men had total authority over women. [1] From the 1560s the post- Reformation marriage service underlined this by stating that a wife "is in subjection and under governance of her husband, so long as they both continue alive". [2] As was common in Western Europe, Scottish society stressed ...
University of Edinburgh. Occupation. Doctor. Known for. Creator of the Brunonian system of medicine. Depiction of a brawl between Brunonian and anti-Brunonian students. John Brown, as depicted by the Edinburgh artist John Kay. John Brown (1735 – 17 October 1788) was a Scottish physician and the creator of the Brunonian system of medicine .