Queen Margaret College Medical Club : opening lecture, session 1896-97 : "members of the medical profession in Glasgow of wide celebrity" / by James Finlayson.

  • Finlayson, James, 1840-1906.
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[1897?]
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Credit: Queen Margaret College Medical Club : opening lecture, session 1896-97 : "members of the medical profession in Glasgow of wide celebrity" / by James Finlayson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    JOSEPH BLACK. 1728—1799.—Born in Bordeaux.— Educated in Belfast and Glasgow.—A student in Cullen's classes in Glasgow University.—Completed his course at Edinburgh.—Graduated M.D. Edin., 1754; Thesis, De humore acido a cibis orto, et magnesia albathis contained an exposition of his discovery of fixed air.—Member of the Glasgow Faculty, 1757.—Lecturer on Chemistry in Glasgow University, 1756.—Professor of Anatomy in Glasgow University in 1756-57.—Professor of Medicine in Glasgow University, 1757-66.—Professor of Chemistry in Edinburgh University, 1766-99.—Doctrine of Latent Heat expounded in Glasgow, 1761.—Associated with James Watt, in Glasgow, in experiments on heat and steam.—Had a considerable practice as a physician while in Glasgow. Works.—Experiments on Magnesia, Quicklime, and other alkaline substances, Edin., 1782, [This is an ex- pansion of his graduation Thesis].—Various other papers.— Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry, published from his MSS. by John Robison, 2 vols., 4to, Edin., 1803. [Prefixed to this is a sketch of his life by Robison.] Refeeences.—Robison's sketch in Black's Lectures, 1803.— Dictionary of National Biography, 1886.— Richardson, Asclepiad, 1890.—Chambers, Dictionary of Biography, 1870. Portrait.—Engraving prefixed to Lectures; also in Richardson's Asclepiad. An oil painting in Glasgow Faculty is a copy.