Francis Sibson
1814–76
Physician. Apprenticed to a surgeon in Edinburgh, 1828; studied at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals, London; resident surgeon and apothecary, Nottingham General Hospital, 1835–48. Set up a consulting practice in London in 1848; physician to Joseph Dalton Hooker and his family. Physician at St Mary’s Hospital, 1851–71. Lectured on medicine. Published on the physiology and pathology of respiration. FRS 1849.
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ODNB
Physicians.
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.
Physicians: The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London. By William Munk. 2d edition, revised and enlarged. 3 vols. London: Royal College of Physicians. 1878. Lives of the fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Compiled by G. H. Brown et al. 5 vols. London: Royal College of Physicians. Oxford and Washington, D.C.: IRL Press. 1955–89.
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