William Pulteney Alison
1790–1859
Physician and social reformer. Professor of ‘institutes of medicine’ at Edinburgh University, 1822–42.
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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