William Addison (physician)

William Addison FRS
Born	1803
Died	26 September 1881(1881-09-26) (aged 77–78) Brighton, East Sussex, England
Nationality	British
Medical career
Field	Physician
Sub-specialties	Haematology

William Addison FRS (1803 – 26 September 1881) was a British physician.

He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 29 January 1846.[1] He studied hematology.[2]

He delivered the Goulstonian Lecture at the Royal College of Physicians in 1859 on the subject of Fevers and Infammation.[3]

He died in Brighton.

Works

• "On the Effects of Produced in Human Blood-corpuscules by Sherry Wine", Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 10, Printed by Taylor and Francis, 1860
• "The Law of Morphology of Metamorphosis of the Textures of the Human Body", The Lancet, Volume 1, UM-MEDSEARCH Gateway, J. Onwhyn, 1847; National Center for Biotechnology Information
• "On Inflammation", British Medical Journal, Volume 2, British Medical Association, 1873
• Cell Therapeutics, London: Churchill 1856[4]

References

1. "Library and Archive catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 24 January 2011.
2. "Why the Platelets were Discovered", British Journal of Haematology, 12 Mar 2008, Volume 13 Issue s1, pp. 618–637.
3. "Goulstonian Lectures". 1: 332–335. JSTOR 25193361. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
4. "The Dublin quarterly journal of medical science", Volume 21, Hodges and Smith, 1856.