Papers of Dr John Campbell

Scope and Content

Letters to Dr Campbell including from Robert Cleghorn and Sir Charles Bell, 1816-1863; lecture notes from the lectures of John Abernethy of St Bartholomew’s Hospital and from Dr Gregory, Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh University, 1772-1813; miscellaneous documents including receipts for arsenic and prescriptions, 1812-1857.

Administrative / Biographical History

John Campbell became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1811 and a Fellow in 1863. He became a Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1816 and gained his Doctorate of Medicine (MD) in Glasgow in 1830. He became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London in 1813. He practised as a surgeon in Largs, Ayrshire. He died on 14 May 1873 aged 81.

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