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Dr James Crawford Gregory FRSE (1801-1832) was a Scottish physician and part of the Gregory family of notable physicians and scientists. His middle name is sometimes spelled as Craufurd.
The Gregory grave, Canongate Churchyard, Edinburgh
Gregory was born at 2 St Andrew Square in Edinburgh [1] Professor James Gregory .[2] William Gregory and Donald Gregory . He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh gaining an MD Paris , France studying under the anatomist Rene Laennec . In 1827, on his return to Scotland, he took on the role as Physician at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (then on Drummond Street) while also being physician to the Edinburgh Asylum on Bristo Place.
In 1828 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh . In the same year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , his proposer was Thomas Allan . He served as the Society’s Secretary from 1829 until death.[3] [4]
During the cholera epidemic he worked at the specifically created Cholera Hospital, housed in Queensberry House on the Canongate in eastern Edinburgh.
He did not marry and lived in the family home for most of his life, the bulk of the family living at 10 Ainslie Place on the Moray Estate in west Edinburgh.[5]
He contracted "malignant typhus" working in the hospital. Despite attention from doctors John Abercrombie and Professor Alison he could not be saved. He died on 28 December 1832.[6] typhus but Abercrombie survived the disease.
He is buried in Canongate Kirkyard in the family plot beside Adam Smith's grave in the south-west corner.
Publications [ edit ]
First Lines on the Practice of Physic , commenced by William Cullen MD completed by James Crawford Gregory (1829, Bell & Bradfute)
References [ edit ]
^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF) . The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2016 .
^ "Record View | Archive Collections | University of Aberdeen" . calm.abdn.ac.uk .
^ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1831-32
^ London Medical and Surgical Journal, January 1833
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