Andrew Whyte Barclay MD (1817–1884), was a Scottish physician.

Biography

Barclay was born at

Dysart, Fife Dysart ( ; (IPA: �tʲiːʃəɾʃt̪) is a town and former royal burgh located on the south-east coast between Kirkcaldy and West Wemyss in Fife, Scotland. Dysart was once part of a wider estate owned by the St Clair or Sinclair family. They ...

, and educated at the High School of Edinburgh. He studied medicine at the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh (, ; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a Public university, public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded by the City of Edinburgh Council, town council under th ...

, and after visiting Berlin and Paris took the MD degree in 1839. He later attended

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, graduating MB in 1847 and MD in 1852. He was elected assistant physician to St George's Hospital in 1857, and devoted much attention to the interests of the medical school, lecturing on medicine, and serving as physician from 1862 to 1882. At the

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he was examiner in medicine, councillor, censor, Lumleian lecturer, and Harveian orator (for 1881), being elected treasurer in 1884. He was president of the

Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society The Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London (RMCS), created in 1805 as the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, was a learned society of physicians and surgeons, that received a Royal charter in 1834, and a supplement charter in 190 ...

for the year 1881, and contributed to the transactions of that society two papers on heart disease. He was shrewd and cautious as a physician, concise and polished as a writer.

Works

''A Manual of Medical Diagnosis.''
* ''On Medical Errors.'' * ''On Gout and Rheumatism in relation to Diseases of the Heart.''

References

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