George Gulliver
physiologist
.
Life and work
Gulliver was born at
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in June 1826 he was gazetted hospital assistant to the forces in May 1827, and afterwards became surgeon to the Royal Horse Guards
(the Blues).
He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1843, and in 1852 a member of the council of the latter body. In 1861 he was Hunterian professor of comparative anatomy and physiology, and in 1863 delivered the Hunterian oration, in which he strongly put forward the neglected claims of William Hewson and John Quekett
as discoverers.
For some years before his death he had retired from the army, and devoted himself to research and writing, but became gradually enfeebled by
St. Thomas' Hospital
.
Gulliver wrote no systematic work, although he edited an English translation of Gerber's General and Minute Anatomy of Man and the Mammalia in 1842, adding, besides numerous notes, an appendix giving an account of his own researches on the blood,
raphides, pollen
, and some tissues, and their taxonomic value.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Gulliver, George". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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