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Authorised form of nameSmyth; James Carmichael (1741 - 1821)
Dates1741 - 1821
NationalityBritish
Place of birthFife, Scotland
Date of birth1741
Date of death18 June 1821
ActivityEducation:
MD (1764, Edinburgh)
Career:
Physician, Middlesex Hospital (1775); used nitric acid fumes to control typhus fever in Winchester Prison and hospital (1780), and made further experiments on a prison ship; awarded £5000 by the Government for his work and made Physician Extraordinary to George III
Memberships:
LCP (1770); FCP speciali gratia (1788);
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/05/1779
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Notes:
Bulloch's Roll has birthplace as Perthshire.
CodeNA2705
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1779/06Smyth, James Carmichael: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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