Cullen | William | 1710-1790 | physician, chemist and metallurgist. Two most important academic mentors in Cullen's life were Robert Simson (1687-1768), the Glasgow mathematician who helped foster his interest in science and who supported him later as a young professor, and Andrew Plummer (1698-1756), experimental chemist in the medical school in Edinburgh and disciple of the influential Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738). His great non-faculty patrons were Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll (1682-1761), lawyer and politician, who got him his Edinburgh chemistry chair; Henry Home, Lorde Kames (1696-1782), judge, agriculturalist and philosopher, who enticed him to Edinburgh; and George Drummond (1687-1766), financier and politician, responsible for the building of the Royal Infirmary and the medical school.
Cullen's favourite colleagues included young Lanarkshire friend William Hunter (1718-83), who became a celebrated anatomist and obstetrician; he was surgeon apothecary apprentice to Cullen for three years in Hamilton, and boarded in his house. William Cullen. William Cullen FRS FRSE FRCPE FPSG (15 April 1710 – 5 February 1790) was a Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist, and one of the most important professors at the Edinburgh Medical School, during its heyday as the leading center of medical education in the English-speaking world.[3] He was President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (1746–7), President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1773–1775) and First Physician to the King in Scotland (1773–1790).[4] He was also, incidentally, one of the prime movers in obtaining a royal charter for the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, resulting in the formation of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783.[5] Cullen was also a successful author.
He published a number of medical textbooks, mostly for the use of his students, though they were popular throughout Europe and the American colonies as well. Early life[edit] Edinburgh[edit] Family[edit] Publications[edit] References[edit] Further reading[edit] William Cullen. Poverty is too often the inheritance of genius, and in the present instance, although in a respectable station of life, the parents of young Cullen, from the scantiness of their means, found it necessary to place him at the grammar school of Hamilton.
Institutions of this kind are conducted on a scale so peculiarly liberal and extensive in Scotland, that in them the rudiments of education are often better and more profoundly taught, than they are in schools frequented by the children of the richer and higher classes of society. Accordingly at this grammar school Dr Cullen received the first part of his education. There are people here, says Mr John Naismyth (the minister of the parish in 1792,) who remember him at school, and saw him in girl’s clothes, acting the part of a shepherdess in a Latin pastoral. [Statist. Acc. Of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 201.] Dr Cullen, early in life, became attached to Miss Anna Johnstone, daughter of the Rev.
Official government source for Scottish genealogy. The Cullen Project | The Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790) Portrait of Dr William Cullen (age 58, 1768), after a portrait undertaken at the request of the physician's students by William Cochrane (courtesy of RCPE) By the time of his death in 1790 William Cullen had long been recognised throughout Britain, Europe and the Americas as the most influential physician of his generation; an experimental chemist, learned physician, successful practitioner, popular university lecturer, generous mentor and the author of a number of much-reprinted medical textbooks. He was born near Glasgow in 1710 at Hamilton (Lanarkshire), where his father was a lawyer, landowner and factor to the Duke of Hamilton.
After attending the local grammar school Cullen studied mathematics and general arts subjects at Glasgow University before being apprenticed to a Glasgow surgeon-apothecary. The Consultations Address page of a sample letter of 1784, bearing marks of posting and later annotations. Cullen's Medical Ideas Cullen is best known for adopting the term "neuroses". William cullen dot net | Exploring the Life and Thought of William Cullen, M. D. Cullen | William | 1710-1790 | physician, chemist and metallurgist. Biography of William Cullen.
Biography of William Cullen William Cullen William Cullen (1710-1790) was the University's first lecturer in Chemistry and subsequently Regius Professor of Practice of Medicine from 1751 to 1755. Born in Hamilton, Cullen studied Arts at the University but chose a career in Medicine. After gaining experience in London and at sea as a surgeon, he returned to practice in Scotland and he was awarded an MD by the University in 1740. In 1744 he began offering extra-mural lectures in Glasgow on the theory and practice of physic and became a lecturer in Medicine at the University two years later. He also offered a course in Chemistry and he continued to give Chemistry lectures after his appointment to the Chair of Medicine in 1751. Cullen was a popular teacher whose students included Joseph Black, who succeeded him as a lecturer in Chemistry. Cullen left Glasgow in 1755 to become Professor of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. The History of the Refrigerator - and Freezer.
The History of the Refrigerator and Freezers Drawing: William Cullen's Design Before mechanical refrigeration systems were introduced, people cooled their food with ice and snow, either found locally or brought down from the mountains. The first cellars were holes dug into the ground and lined with wood or straw and packed with snow and ice: this was the only means of refrigeration for most of history. Refrigeration is the process of removing heat from an enclosed space, or from a substance, to lower its temperature. The first known artificial refrigeration was demonstrated by William Cullen at the University of Glasgow in 1748. Side Note: Improved refrigerator designs were patented by African American inventors, Thomas Elkins (11/4/1879 U.S. patent #221,222) and John Standard (7/14/1891 U.S. patent #455,891). Refrigerators from the late 1800s until 1929 used the toxic gases ammonia (NH3), methyl chloride (CH3Cl), and sulfur dioxide (SO2) as refrigerants.
©Mary Bellis. Scottish fact of the day: William Cullen, inventor of refrigeration - Heritage. THE first recorded instance of artificial refrigeration was unveiled by physicist and chemist William Cullen (1710-1790) in the mid-18th century. Cullen demonstrated his discovery at Glasgow University in 1748, although no proposal was made to commercialise the technique at the time. The Hamilton-born scientist achieved the effect of refrigeration by boiling ethyl ether in a partial vacuum. It was only in the 19th century that freezing became a commonplace method of preserving perishable goods such as meat, a development which coincided with innovations in electrical motors that replaced more primitive ways of transporting food via ships over long distances. An estimated 500 million fridge-freezer units are now used worldwide. WILLIAM CULLEN. Health and virtue: or, how to keep out of harm's way. Lectures on pathology and therapeutics by William Cullen c. 1770.
William Cullen, 1710 - 1790. Chemist and physician − William Cochran − C. William Cullen followed almost every avenue open to him in his medical career. As a general practitioner, surgeon and lecturer at both Glasgow and Edinburgh universities, he specialised in chemistry, botany and surgery. He gained a reputation as the pre-eminent Scottish doctor of his generation, which in 1773 won him the prestigious chair of the practice of medicine at Edinburgh’s medical school. In addition to his own practice, Cullen ran an extensive postal consultation service. At the height of his professional fame, he gave medical advice in response to over 150 letters a year, advising on lifestyle, diet and various forms of medication.
This portrait is one of several versions of the same painting. William Cochran (Scottish, 1738 - 1785) William Cochran was born in Strathaven, South Lanarkshire, and began his artistic training in 1754 at the newly founded Foulis Academy in Glasgow. William Cullen (Scottish physician and professor) -- Encyclopedia Britannica. Wm.Cullen. Lecturer in Chemistry, Glasgow University, 1747-55 Founder (1747) and first lecturer in Chemistry. Senate Minutes (5 January 1747): "Mr. Dunlop having represented the necessity of having Chemie taught in this University, he proposed at the same time that the thirty pounds sterling of the Professor of Oriental Languages salary that was saved during the time he was abroad with whatever the University should think fit to add thereto might be allotted to the buying of the Necessary Apparatus for practical Lectures in Chemie and building furnaces etc. for the same. And the said proposal is to be considered in the University meeting the 28th of this month.
" Senate Minutes (11 February 1747): "Dr. Cullen and Mr. Faculty Minutes (18 June 1747): "The above named Committee are appointed to consider in what manner the Thirty pounds sterling saved of the Professor of Oriental Languages salary while Mr. Senate Minutes (26 June 1749): "Dr. Senate Minutes (1 November 1749): "It was reported that Dr.