James Risdon Bennett
1809–91
Physician. MD, Edinburgh, 1833. FRCP 1846. Assistant physician to St Thomas’s Hospital, 1843; physician, 1849. First physician to the newly founded City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, 1848. One of the first physicians to introduce the use of the stethoscope in England. President, Royal College of Physicians, 1876–80. Knighted 1881. FRS 1875.
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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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