John Thomson

1765 – 1846

John Thomson (1765-1846) was a Scottish physician and surgeon, as well as the biographer of the Enlightenment physician, [William Cullen][1] (1710-1790). [1]: http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL115928A/William_Cullen

• Copy of an address, read to his students, after lecture, on Monday, November 21
• A plain statement of facts, in favour of the cow-pox, intended for circulation through the middle and lower classes of society
• An account of the life, lectures and writings of William Cullen
• An account of the life, lectures and writings of William Cullen
• An Account of the Life, Lectures, and Writings of William Cullen, M.D. Vol. I
• An account of the varioloid epidemic, which has lately prevailed in Edinburgh and other parts of Scotland ; with observations on the identity of chicken-pox with modified small-pox
• Appendix to a Proposal for a new manner of cutting for the stone
• Copy of a letter to George Aitchison, Esq. College Bailie, containing some remarks on a communication from the Senatus Academicus to the Patrons of the University of Edinburgh
• Hints respecting the improvement of the literary & scientific education of candidates for the degree of doctor of medicine in the University of Edinburgh
• Historical sketch of the opinions entertained by medical men respecting the varieties and the secondary occurrence of small-pox
• Historical sketch of the opinions entertained by medical men respecting the varieties and the secondary occurrence of small-pox ; with observations on the nature and extent of the security afforded by vaccination against attacks of that disease
• Lectures on inflammation