William Cumberland Cruikshank (1745 in Edinburgh – 27 June 1800) was a British physician and anatomist. He was the author of The Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels of the Human Body, which was first published in 1786.[1][2]
William Cumberland Cruikshank | |
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| Born | 1745  Edinburgh |
| Died | 27 June 1800 (aged 54–55) |
He went to London in 1771 and became assistant to William Hunter in his anatomical work.[1] In 1797, he was the first to demonstrate that a particular crystallizable substance exists in the urine and is precipitated from it by nitric acid.[3]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1797.[4]
Notes and references
edit- ^ a b Pilcher, Lewis Stephen (1918). A List of Books by Some of the Old Masters of Medicine and Surgery, p. 132. Brooklyn, New York.
- ^ Quain, Jones (1892). Quain's Elements of Anatomy, Vol. II, Part II, p. 546. London: Longmans, Green and Co.
- ^ Coulson, William (1857). On the diseases of the bladder and prostate gland , p. 15. Churchill.
- ^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 26 December 2010.[permanent dead link]
Further reading
edit- McDonald, Stuart W. (2015). "William Cruikshank (1745-1800), anatomist and surgeon, and his illustrious patient, Samuel Johnson". Clinical Anatomy. 28 (7): 836–843. doi:10.1002/ca.22567. ISSN 0897-3806. PMID 26185019. S2CID 30908712.
- Rose, F Clifford (2011). History of British Neurology. World Scientific. pp. 75–77. ISBN 978-1-908977-84-7.
- "William C. Cruikshank (1745-1800) Surgeon of Leicester Square". JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 214 (6): 1110. 1970. doi:10.1001/jama.1970.03180060084019. ISSN 0098-7484.
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