NEIL See also:

• NEIL ARNOTT (1788-1874)

ARNOTT (1788-1874)  , Scottish physician, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• ARBROATH, or ABERBROTHOCK

Arbroath on the 15th of May 1788 . He studied See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine first at See also:

• ABERDEEN
• ABERDEEN, GEORGE GORDON, 1ST EARL O (1637-1720)
• ABERDEEN, GEORGE HAMILTON GORDON, 4TH EARL

Aberdeen, and subsequently in See also:

• LONDON

London. under See also:

• SIR

Sir Everard See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

Home (1756-1832), through whom he obtained, while yet in his nineteenth See also:

• YEAR

year, the See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment of full- surgeon to an See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East Indiaman . After making two voyages to See also:

• CHINA

China he settled in 1811 to practise in London, and speedily acquired high reputation in his profession . Within a few years he was made physician - to the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French and See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish embassies, and in 1837 he became a physician extraordinary to the See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

queen . From his. earliest youth See also:

• ARNOTT, NEIL (1788-1874)

Arnott had an intense love of natural .See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy,' and to this was added an inventiveness which served him in See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good. See also:

• STEAD, WILLIAM THOMAS (1849– )

stead in his profession and yielded the "Arnott See also:

• WATER

water-See also:

• BED
• BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

bed," the "Arnott ventilator," the "Arnott See also:

• STOVE

stove," &c . He was the author of several See also:

• WORKS

works bearing on See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science or its applications, the most important being his .Elements of Physics (1827), which went through six See also:

• EDITIONS

editions in his lifetime . In 1838 he published a See also:

• TREATISE

treatise on Warming and Ventilating, and, in 1855, One on the Smokeless Fireplace . He was a strong See also:

• ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate of scientific, - as opposed to purely classical, See also:

• EDUCATION

education; and he manifested his See also:

• INTEREST

interest in natural philosophy by the See also:

• GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift of£2000 to each of the four See also:

• UNIVERSITIES

universities of See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland and to the university of London, to promote its study in the experimental and See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form . He died in London on the 2nd of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1874 .