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- 1833 . 15 February George Leith Roupell FRS (1797–1854) was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. After graduation in 1820, and following a continental tour, he was appointed visiting physician to the SHS and took up his duties in January 1829. He replaced Halliday, MacKinnon and Roberts, who had been the original physicians to that charity. Roupell wrote extensively on cholera and typhus. His letter of resignation was read at a meeting of the Committee of Management held on 9 November 1832 (he was made a consulting physician on and he was appointed physician to St Bartholomew's Hospital on 19 June 1834. Roupell subsequently became senior physician to St Bartholomew's Hospital, and died suddenly of cholera towards the end of the 1853–4 outbreak. See also: G. C. Cook, ‘George Leith Roupell, FRS (1797–1854): significant contributions to the early nineteenth-century understanding of cholera and typhus’, J. Med. Biog. 8 (2000), 1–7
- 25 July 1834 . 25 July , 17 – 9 . Minutes of the Committee of Management, Seamen's Hospital Society. Book 3 (2 January 1830–
- Ibid 120 – 1 .
- Ibid 285
- 2 October 1824 . 2 October , 291 – 2 . Minutes of the Committee of Management, Seamen's Hospital Society. Book 1 (8 March 1821–
- Ibid 295 – 6 .
- An essay on fevers wherein their theoretic genera, species, and various denominations are, from observation and experience, for thirty years, in Europe, Asia, and America, and on the intermediate seas, reduced under their characteristic genus. Febrile Infection; and the Cure established on philosophical induction Robert Robertson FRS (1742–1829) received his medical education at Edinburgh University and then served (from 1760) in the Royal Navy. Amongst his postings were ones to the West Indies and the west coast of Africa. In 1793 Robertson was appointed physician to the Royal Hospital, Greenwich. Throughout his career he kept meticulous case-notes on every patient who came under his care, and became the leading authority on ‘fevers’. See also: R. Robertson, (Robert Robertson, London, 1790); G. C. Cook, ‘Robert Robertson (1742–1829): physician to the Royal Hospital Greenwich, eighteenth century authority on “fevers”, and early practitioner of care of the elderly’, J. Med. Biog. (2005) (in press)
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