Robert Whytt (1714 – 1766)

Robert Whytt 

(1714 – 1766) 

Robert Whytt (1714 in Edinburgh – 1766) MA St Andrews, 1730; MD Reims 1736; MD St Andrews, 1737; FRCPE Edinburgh, 1738 and President, 1763-6; Professor of Theory of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh from 1747; FRS, 1752 Whytt studied medicine at Edinburgh, Paris and Leyden.

Topics he worked on include:

unconscious reflexes

tubercular meningitis

urinary bladder stones

hysteria

He was the physician to King George III in Scotland from 1761. In 1763, he became president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. His work focused mostly upon diseases of the nervous system.

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