About John Bright
Lived 1781 – 1870 (aged 88–89). John Bright was a British physician.
John Bright (1783–1870) was an English physician.
Life Bright was born in Derbyshire, and educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. 1801, and M.D. 1808.
He at first practised in Birmingham, and was appointed physician to the General Hospital in 1810; but before long he moved to London. He was elected fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1809, was several times censor, and was Harveian orator in 1830. From 1822 to 1843 he was physician to the Westminster Hospital.
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English physician
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John Bright died in 1870.
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