About William Cumberland Cruikshank
Lived 1745 – 1800 (aged 54–55). William Cumberland Cruikshank was a British chemist, anatomist, inventor and physician.
William Cumberland Cruikshank (1745 in Edinburgh – 27 June 1800) was a British physician and anatomist. He was the author of The Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels of the Human Body, which was first published in 1786.
He went to London in 1771 and became assistant to William Hunter in his anatomical work.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1797.
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William Cumberland Cruikshank died on 27 June 1800 in London.
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