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SIR JAMES CLARK (1788—1870)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 442 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:JAMES See also:CLARK (1788—1870)  , See also:English physician, was See also:born at See also:Cullen, See also:Banffshire, and was educated at the See also:grammar school of Fordyce and at the See also:universities of See also:Aberdeen and See also:Edinburgh . He served for six years as a surgeon in the See also:army; then spent some See also:time in travelling on the See also:continent, in See also:order to investigate the See also:mineral See also:waters and the See also:climate of various See also:health resorts; and for seven years he lived in See also:Rome . In 1826 he began to practise in See also:London . In 1835 he was appointed physician to the duchess of See also:Kent, becoming physician in See also:ordinary to See also:Queen See also:Victoria in 1837 . In 1838 he was created a See also:baronet . He published The See also:Influence of Climate in Chronic Diseases, containing valuable meteorological tables (1829), and a See also:Treatise on Pulmonary See also:Consumption (1835) .

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