Busick Harwood

Sir Busick Harwood (27 November 1750 – 10 November 1814) was an English physician who became Professor of Anatomy at Cambridge, and one of the first Fellows of Downing College, Cambridge.

Life The fourth son of John and Mary Harwood of Newmarket, he was born there on 27 November 1750. After apprenticeship to an apothecary and to Uppingham surgeon William Forfitt, He received his MD by examination from the University of St Andrews School of Medicine in 1790,

In 1785, on the death of Charles Collignon, Harwood was elected Professor of Anatomy at Cambridge. 134 of these portraits can be viewed online through Cambridge Digital Library. A quarrel arose between Harwood and William Lort Mansel about these portraits. Harwood also sent a challenge to Sir Isaac Pennington, the Regius Professor of Physic, which the latter disdained to notice; but the messenger, an undergraduate, published the affair in the London papers.

Harwood was appointed Downing Professor of Medicine in 1800 at the newly formed Downing College, Cambridge, while retaining his anatomical chair.

Works Harwood published the first volume of a System of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology, Cambridge 1796, and some synopses of his courses of lectures.