Robert Bourne, M.D. (1761–1829) was an English physician and professor of medicine.
Life
editBourne was born at Shrawley, Worcestershire, and educated at Bromsgrove. He was elected a scholar of Worcester College, Oxford, and became a Fellow of the college. He proceeded B.A. in 1781, M.A. in 1784, M.B. in 1786, and in 1787 took the degree of M.D. and was elected physician to the Radcliffe Infirmary at Oxford.
In 1790 he became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. In 1794 he was appointed reader of chemistry at Oxford. He was Harveian Orator in 1797.[1] In 1803 he was the Aldrichian professor of physic, and in 1824 Lichfield professor of clinical medicine.
He died in Oxford on 23 December 1829. A monument was erected to him in the chapel of his college.
Works
editHis published works are:
References
edit- ^ Brock, W. H. "Bourne, Robert". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3009. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Bourne, Robert (1797). An introductory lecture to a course of chemistry : read at the Laboratory in Oxford, on February 7, 1797. Oxford : [publisher not identified]. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
- ^ Bourne, Robert (1805). Cases of pulmonary consumption, &c., treated with uva ursi; to which are added some practical observations. Oxford : University Press. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
- ^ Isaac, Peter (2002). "Eight Days for a Publisher's Managing Clerk". Quadrat (15): 3–10. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Bourne, Robert". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
External links
edit- Grave of Bourne's grandson Thomas Henry Bridges — Information about Robert Bourne and his children