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RefNoEC/1843/10
Previous numbersCert IX, 103; A05365
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TitleBrooke, Sir William O'Shaughnessy: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationThe Discoverer of the changes caused in the Blood by the malignant cholera - The Author of Memoirs on the state of the blood in cholera - on the detection of poisons - on the laws of the constant Voltaic battery - on the construction of electro.magnetic-machines - on the physiological & medicinal effects of the Indian Hemp - of a dispensatory of materia medica & other works for the use of the students of the medical & Hindu colleges of Bengal - &c &c-. The Inventor or Improver of some forms of Voltaic apparatus &c. Distinguished for his acquaintance with the science of Medicine & Chemistry. Eminent as a Physician and as a promoter of education among the natives of Bengal
ProposersFrom General Knowledge. J F W Herschel; C W Pasley; John Lindley
From Personal Knowledge. H H Wilson; W H Sykes; Tho Horsfield; J Forbes Royle; Jonn Pereira; John Forbes; James Clark; James McGrigor; Thos Best Jervis
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Brooke, Sir William O'Shaughnessy: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA8150Brooke; Sir; William O'Shaughnessy (1809 - 1889)1809 - 1889
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