Hugh Gillan (died 19 May 1798) was a Scottish physician.
Hugh Gillan was born in Scotland. He became a doctor of medicine of University of Edinburgh in 1786.[1]
Hugh Gillan joined the 1793 Macartney Embassy to China as a physician. The embassy was led by George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney.[2]
Honors
editHe was admitted a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians 1795. He was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society in 1795.[1][3]
References
edit- ^ a b Hugh Gillan entry on the Royal College of Physicians website
- ^ Bivins, Roberta (1 December 1999). "Expectations and Expertise: Early British Responses to Chinese Medicine". History of Science. 37 (4): 459–489. doi:10.1177/007327539903700404. S2CID 162745173.
- ^ Hugh Gillan entry on the Royal Society website
Further reading
edit- Gillan, Hugh. 'Mr Gillan's Observations on the State of Medicine, Surgery, and Chemistry in China', in J. L. Cranmer-Byng (ed.), An Embassy to China: Being the Journal kept by Lord Macartney During his Embassy to the Emperor Ch'ien-lung 1793-1794 (London, 1962), 279–90.
- Bivins, Roberta (2000). Acupuncture, Expertise and Cross-Cultural Medicine. Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9780230287518. ISBN 978-0-333-91893-7. S2CID 73389679.
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