Thomas King Chambers

Thomas King Chambers (16 October 1817, London – 15 August 1889, Middlesex) was an English physician who published and lectured on diet and digestion. He was among the first to advocate medicine as a career for women. He was a founder and trustee of the London School of Medicine for Women.

Biography Thomas King Chambers was the fifth son of Robert Joseph Chambers,

Thomas Chambers was educated at Rugby School under Thomas Arnold and at Shrewsbury School under Samuel Butler. (1827–1893). In 1848 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. which had to amputated through the thigh. After the amputation he continued to practise medicine,

Chambers was a Censor at the Royal College of Physicians and delivered the Gulstonian Lectures in April and May 1850. He also gave the Lumleian Lectures in 1863

Chambers was interested in educating the general public about dietetics. He contributed a 45-page appendix The principles of diet in health and disease to the 1879 American edition, edited by Eliza Ann Youmans, of a 1877 cookbook by Rose Owen Cole,

He worked, with considerable success, to improve medical education, especially the status of medicine at the University of Oxford and the professional value of its medical degrees. He lectured at the Working Men's College in Oakley Square. F.R.C.S., who was a nephew of the surgeon William Coulson.

Chambers was an accomplished amateur oil painter, draughtsman, water-colourist, and wood carver. He was survived by his widow, their two daughters,

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