Robert Christison, 1st baronet
1797–1882
Scottish toxicologist and physician. MD, Edinburgh, 1819. Regius professor of medical jurisprudence and medical police (forensic medicine and public health), Edinburgh University, 1822–32; of materia medica and therapeutics, 1832–77. President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1838–40 and 1846–8. President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1869–73. Physician-in-ordinary to the queen in Scotland. Created baronet, 1871.
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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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