Edward Fryer, M.D. (1761–1826) was an English physician.

Life

Fryer was born at

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. He was sent to the grammar school there, and then apprenticed to a general practitioner of medicine in Wiltshire. He studied medicine in London, Edinburgh, and Leyden, and graduated M.D. at the

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29 January 1785. He travelled in Europe until 1790, when he came to London, and was admitted a licentiate of the

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. He became physician to the

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, and resided in Upper Charlotte Street, where he died 9 January 1826.

Works

He attended James Barry, the painter, in his last illness, and wrote his life, a work which was published in 1825.

References

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