About Andrew Buchanan
Lived 1798 – 1882 (aged 83–84). Andrew Buchanan was a surgeon and physiologist.
Andrew Buchanan (10 December 1798 – 1882) was a Scottish surgeon and academic. He served as Regius Professor of the Institutes of Medicine at the University of Glasgow from 1839 to 1876. He practised as a surgeon at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary 1835 to 1862. He was President of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 1879 to 1880. He founded the Glasgow Medical Journal in 1828, and became its joint-editor.
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Who was Andrew Buchanan?
Scottish surgeon and professor of Physiology
When was Andrew Buchanan born?
Andrew Buchanan was born on 10 December 1798 in Glasgow.
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Andrew Buchanan died in 1882 in Dunkeld.
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Andrew Buchanan was a surgeon and physiologist.
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