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Thomas Richard Fraser

1841–1920

Physician and pharmacologist. MD, Edinburgh, 1862. Research assistant in materia medica, University of Edinburgh, 1864–70; professor from 1877. Assistant physician, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, 1869–74; physician from 1878. Specialised in the effects of poisons. Knighted, 1902. FRS 1877.

Sources

ODNB

Record of the Royal Society of London.

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.

Record of the Royal Society of London: The record of the Royal Society of London for the promotion of natural knowledge. 4th edition. London: Royal Society. 1940.

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