Alexander P. W. Philip

Dr Alexander Philip Wilson Philip FRS FRSE (15 October 1770–1851) was a 19th-century Scottish physician, physiologist and medical author.

Life

He was born Alexander Philip Wilson at Shieldhall in Glasgow on 15 October 1770 the son of Agnes Gillespie and her husband, Alexander Wilson.

He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh gaining his doctorate (MD) in 1792 and then taking up practice in the city. In 1795, aged 25, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Alexander Monro (secundus), Andrew Duncan, the elder, and William Wright. In 1797 he was elected President of the Royal Medical Society.[1]

In 1798 he went to Winchester in England to practice, staying there until 1802. He then moved to Worcester General Infirmary until 1817 when he moved to London. In 1826 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.[1]

Around 1843 he fled to France to avoid debtors' prison.

Family

In 1811 he married Mary Domville.

Publications

Until 1811 he wrote as Dr A P Wilson.

  • An Inquiry into the Remote Cause of Urinary Gravel (1792)
  • A Treatise on Febrile Diseases (1801)
  • Observations on the Use and Abuse of Mercury (1805)
  • An Analysis of the Malvern Waters (1805)
  • On the Nature of Sleep (1833)
  • The Nervous and Muscular Systems of More Perfect Animals (1833)
  • On the Influence of Small Doses of Mercury in Restoring the Functions of Health (1834)
  • The Gulstonian Lectures (1835)
  • A Treatise on Protracted Indigestion and its Consequences (1842)

References
  1. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2017.


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