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A montage of portraits of nine Scots physicians, with their signatures underneath. Photoprint.

William Pulteney Alison. Lithograph.

William Pulteney Alison. Photograph.

William Pulteney Alison. Stipple engraving by J. H. Robinson, 1849, after G. Richmond.

William Pulteney Alison : activist philanthropist and pioneer of social medicine / Sheonagh M.K. Martin.

William Pulteney Alison : Scottish pioneer of social medicine / by J.H.F. Brotherston.

William Pulteney Alison / Joy Pitman.

Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de viribus naturae medicatricibus : quam, annuente summo numine : ex auctoritate reverendi admodum viri, D. Georgii Baird, SS.T.P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti : necnon amplissimi senatus academici consensu, et nobilissimae facultatis medicae decreto : pro gradu doctoratus, summisque in medicina honoribus ac privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis / eruditorum examini subjicit Gulielmus Pultney Alison, Scotus.

Remarks on the report of Her Majesty's Commissioners on the Poor-Laws of Scotland, presented to Parliament in 1844, and on the dissent of Mr. Twisleton from that report / by William Pulteney Alison.

Dissertation on the state of medical science, from the termination of the eighteenth century to the present time / by W.P. Alison.

History of medicine in the present century / W. P. Alison.

On single and correct vision : by means of double and inverted images on the retinae / by W.P. Alison.

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Alison, William Pulteney, 1790-1859

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Remarks on the report of Her Majesty's Commissioners on the Poor-Laws of Scotland, presented to Parliament in 1844, and on the dissent of Mr. Twisleton from that report / by William Pulteney Alison.

Dissertation on the state of medical science, from the termination of the eighteenth century to the present time / by W.P. Alison.

History of medicine in the present century / W. P. Alison.

On single and correct vision : by means of double and inverted images on the retinae / by W.P. Alison.