Sketches of the lives and works of the honorary medical staff of the Manchester Infirmary, from its foundation in 1752 to 1830, when it became the Royal Infirmary / by Edward Mansfield Brockbank.

  • Brockbank, E. M. (Edward Mansfield), 1866-
Date:
1904
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Credit: Sketches of the lives and works of the honorary medical staff of the Manchester Infirmary, from its foundation in 1752 to 1830, when it became the Royal Infirmary / by Edward Mansfield Brockbank. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Honorary Physician to the Infirmary, 1790 to 1815. John Ferriar, the son of the Rev. Alexander Ferriar (or Ferrier), was born at Oxnam, Roxburgh- shire, on November 21st, 1761. He was educated at Edinburgh, where in 1781 he graduated as Doctor in Medicine, with a thesis de Variola. In 1782 he commenced practice at Stockton-on- Tees, and married Miss Barbara Gair, of Alnwick, the same year. In 1785 he removed to Manchester, where he settled for the rest of his life. In Manchester he soon became an active and prominent member of the scientific and literary circles, and contributed a paper to the Literary and Philosophical Society, with the title Of popular illusions, and particularly of medical demonology, in 1786. The same year he read another essay On the dramatic writings of Massinger, and in 1787 one On observations concerning the vital principle. In 1787 he was elected as one of the secretaries of the society,