Chalmers, Lionel, approximately 1715-1777
Variant namesChalmers was a physician in 18th-century Charleston, S.C.; author of An essay on fevers (1767), and An Account of the Weather and Diseases of South Carolina (1776).
Robert Whytt (1714-1766) was born in Edinburgh, the son of an advocate, but left an orphan at age 6; he studied in St Andrews, Edinburgh, Paris and Leyden and began to practice as a doctor in 1738; appointed physician to King George III in Scotland from 1761; Whytt's important work concerned unconscious reflexes, in which he was an early believer; tubercular meningitis; and the treatment of urinary bladder stones.
From the description of Letter, 17[62?] May 8, Charleston, S.C., to Dr. Robert Whytt, Edinburgh (Scotland). (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 56725343
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| creatorOf | Chalmers, Lionel, ca. 1715-1777. Letter, 17[62?] May 8, Charleston, S.C., to Dr. Robert Whytt, Edinburgh (Scotland). | University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries | |
| creatorOf | Chalmers, Lionel, ca. 1715-1777. Medical bill with John Lining. | Medical University of South Carolina Libraries | |
| creatorOf | Lining, John, 1708-1760. The public dr to Lining & Chalmers : bill, 1753. | Newberry Library | |
| referencedIn | John Bartram correspondence, 1735-1775, 1735-1775 | American Philosophical Society |
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| associatedWith | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | person |
| associatedWith | Breintnall, Joseph, d. 1746 | person |
| correspondedWith | Chalmers, Lionel, 1715-1777 | person |
| associatedWith | Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 | person |
| associatedWith | Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | person |
| associatedWith | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | person |
| associatedWith | Lining, John, 1708-1760. | person |
| associatedWith | Linne, Carl von, 1707-1778 | person |
| associatedWith | Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753 | person |
| correspondedWith | Whytt, Robert, 1714-1766 | person |
| associatedWith | Witt, Christopher, 1675-1765 | person |
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Birth 1715
Death 1777
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