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James Bell Pettigrew

1834–1908

Scottish anatomist. Croonian Lecturer, Royal Society of London, 1860. House surgeon, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, 1861. Assistant, Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1862–7. Curator, museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1869; lecturer in physiology, 1873. Chandos Professor of medicine and anatomy and dean of the medical faculty, St Andrews University, 1875. Represented the universities of Glasgow and St Andrews on the General Medical Council, 1877–86. FRS 1869.

Source

ODNB.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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