George Harley
1829–96
Scottish physician and physiologist; a specialist on diseases of the liver. Surgeon and physician at the Edinburgh Infirmary, 1850–1; studied physiology and chemistry in France, 1851–3, and Germany, 1853–5. Curator of the anatomical museum and lecturer in practical physiology and histology, University College, London, 1855; professor of medical jurisprudence, 1859; physician, University College Hospital, 1860. FRS 1865.
Sources
DNB
Medical directory
Physicians.
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Physicians: The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London. By William Munk. 2d edition, revised and enlarged. 3 vols. London: Royal College of Physicians. 1878. Lives of the fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Compiled by G. H. Brown et al. 5 vols. London: Royal College of Physicians. Oxford and Washington, D.C.: IRL Press. 1955–89.
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