Thomas Williams

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Thomas Williams
MD, FRS
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Born 1818
Died 1865
Residence Swansea
Occupation medical
Society Membership
membership ASL ordinary fellow
left 1865 deceased
elected_ASL 1864.05.03
societies Royal Society
Linnean Society of London

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1865.05.23 death noted
obit in Presidential Address 1866

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WILLIAMS , THOMAS (Soranus , 1818 - 1865 ), physician and scientist ; b. in 1818 , the son of John Williams , vicar of Llandyfrïog, Cards. He went to London to study medicine, and in 1843 won the R.C.S. prize for an essay on ‘ The Structure and Functions of the Lungs ’; he became a M.D. in 1845 . After having spent some time at Guy's Hospital as a lecturer in anatomy , he started to practise at Swansea , where he gained a great reputation. From 1841 to 1858 he was a regular contributor to the London medical and scientific journals . In Swansea he published two monographs, A Sketch of the Relation … between the Three Kingdoms of Nature , 1844 , and The Science and Scientific Men of Wales , 1855 , besides a report ( 1854 ) on the effects of the smoke of the copper works. He was elected F.R.S. in 1858 . He d. 23 May 1865 . He had a brother,

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A Sketch of the Relation … between the Three Kingdoms of Nature , 1844 , and The Science and Scientific Men of Wales , 1855 , besides a report ( 1854 ) on the effects of the smoke of the copper works.

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