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William Cumberland Cruikshank

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William Cumberland Cruikshank
portrait by Gilbert Stuart
Born1745 Edit this on Wikidata
Edinburgh Edit this on Wikidata
Died27 June 1800 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 54–55)

William Cumberland Cruikshank (1745 in Edinburgh – 27 June 1800) was a British physician and anatomist. He was the author of The Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels of the Human Body, which was first published in 1786.[1][2]

He went to London in 1771 and became assistant to William Hunter in his anatomical work.[1] In 1797, he was the first to demonstrate that a particular crystallizable substance exists in the urine and is precipitated from it by nitric acid.[3]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1797.[4]

Notes and references

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  1. ^ a b Pilcher, Lewis Stephen (1918). A List of Books by Some of the Old Masters of Medicine and Surgery, p. 132. Brooklyn, New York.
  2. ^ Quain, Jones (1892). Quain's Elements of Anatomy, Vol. II, Part II, p. 546. London: Longmans, Green and Co.
  3. ^ Coulson, William (1857). On the diseases of the bladder and prostate gland , p. 15. Churchill.
  4. ^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 26 December 2010.[permanent dead link]

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