William Addison (physician)
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William Addison FRS was a British physician
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

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He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 29 January 1846.
He studied hematology
Hematology
Hematology, also spelled haematology , is the branch of biology physiology, internal medicine, pathology, clinical laboratory work, and pediatrics that is concerned with the study of blood, the blood-forming organs, and blood diseases...

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He delivered the Goulstonian Lecture at the Royal College of Physicians
Royal College of Physicians
The Royal College of Physicians of London was founded in 1518 as the College of Physicians by royal charter of King Henry VIII in 1518 - the first medical institution in England to receive a royal charter...

in 1859 on the subject of Fevers and Infammation

He died in Brighton.

Works


  • Cell Therapeutics, London: Churchill 1856
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