British baronet, toxicologist, and physician (1797-1882)

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Sir Robert Christison. Etching.

Sir Robert Christison. Lithograph by Fr. Schenck after W. Stewart.

Sir Robert Christison. Photograph.

Poison, proof and a professor : Sir Robert Christison's work in medical jurisprudence in Edinburgh, 1822-1855 / Elizabeth O. Watts.

Some nineteenth century Scotsmen : being personal recollections / by William Knight.

In memoriam : Sir Robert Christison.

xxiv, 876 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 illustration, frontispiece ; (8vo)

A treatise on poisons, in relation to medical jurisprudence, physiology, and the practice of physic / By Robert Christison.

Medical lectures : the faults with which they are charged and the remedy / by Robert Christison.

Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de febre continua, quae nuper in hac urbe epidemica fuit; ex exemplis, apud Nosocomium Regium tractatis, deducta / [Sir Robert Christison].

iv, xlii, 1,003 pages : illustrations ; (8vo)

A dispensatory, or commentary on the pharmacopoeias of Great Britain. Comprising the natural history, description, chemistry, pharmacy, actions, uses, and doses of the articles of the materia medica / [Sir Robert Christison].

A dispensatory, or commentary on the pharmacopoeias of Great Britain (and the United States) comprising the natural history, description, chemistry, pharmacy, actions, uses, and doses of the articles of the materia medica / [Sir Robert Christison].

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A treatise on poisons, in relation to medical jurisprudence, physiology, and the practice of physic / By Robert Christison.

Medical lectures : the faults with which they are charged and the remedy / by Robert Christison.

Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de febre continua, quae nuper in hac urbe epidemica fuit; ex exemplis, apud Nosocomium Regium tractatis, deducta / [Sir Robert Christison].

A dispensatory, or commentary on the pharmacopoeias of Great Britain. Comprising the natural history, description, chemistry, pharmacy, actions, uses, and doses of the articles of the materia medica / [Sir Robert Christison].

A dispensatory, or commentary on the pharmacopoeias of Great Britain (and the United States) comprising the natural history, description, chemistry, pharmacy, actions, uses, and doses of the articles of the materia medica / [Sir Robert Christison].

Sir Robert Christison. Lithograph by Fr. Schenck after W. Stewart.

Poison, proof and a professor : Sir Robert Christison's work in medical jurisprudence in Edinburgh, 1822-1855 / Elizabeth O. Watts.

Some nineteenth century Scotsmen : being personal recollections / by William Knight.

Sir Robert Christison. Etching.

In memoriam : Sir Robert Christison.

Frequent collaborators

Robert Christison

Images from the collections

Images featuring Robert Christison

Works from the collections

A treatise on poisons, in relation to medical jurisprudence, physiology, and the practice of physic / By Robert Christison.

Medical lectures : the faults with which they are charged and the remedy / by Robert Christison.

Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de febre continua, quae nuper in hac urbe epidemica fuit; ex exemplis, apud Nosocomium Regium tractatis, deducta / [Sir Robert Christison].

A dispensatory, or commentary on the pharmacopoeias of Great Britain. Comprising the natural history, description, chemistry, pharmacy, actions, uses, and doses of the articles of the materia medica / [Sir Robert Christison].

A dispensatory, or commentary on the pharmacopoeias of Great Britain (and the United States) comprising the natural history, description, chemistry, pharmacy, actions, uses, and doses of the articles of the materia medica / [Sir Robert Christison].

Sir Robert Christison. Lithograph by Fr. Schenck after W. Stewart.

Poison, proof and a professor : Sir Robert Christison's work in medical jurisprudence in Edinburgh, 1822-1855 / Elizabeth O. Watts.

Some nineteenth century Scotsmen : being personal recollections / by William Knight.

Sir Robert Christison. Etching.

In memoriam : Sir Robert Christison.

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