A History of Kidderminster With Short Accounts of Some Neighbouring Parishes
A History of Kidderminster With Short Accounts of Some Neighbouring Parishes
J R John Richard Burton
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, was fourth son of John Johnstone, Esq. , of Galabank, an ancient branch of the Jolinstones " of that ilk. " He was born at Anandale April 14, 1730, and received the degree of M. D. In Edinburgh University 1750. In 1 75 1 he settled as a physician at Kidderminster, where he soon gained a great reputation in his profession. He published An Historical Dissertation concerning the Malignant Epidemic Fever of 1 756, from which he appears to have been the first to generate hydro- chloric acid gas as... a means of destroying contagion b}' pouring sulphuric acid on conmion salt. In the 54th volume of the Phil. Trans, he published the first sketch of his opinions of the uses of the ganglions of the nerves. He attended George the " good " Lord Lyttelton in his last illness, " and was not only his physician but his confessor. " He also wrote treatises on Angina, Scarlet Fever, The Slave Trade, Hydrophobia, Sec, for which he was voted the honorary medal of tlie Medical Society, He sent much information about Kidderminster to Dr.
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