Burt, Adam

Education

M.D. 26.3.1808 on testimonials signed by Robert Moir of Leckie, Robert Graham, James Hare M.D., Thomas Spens M.D., Andrew Duncan senior and Francis Balfour M.D.

Birth/childhood

Born before 1760.

Career

C.C.S. [Certificate of Corporation of Surgeons] 1779. L.R.C.P.E. 1.8.1809. F.R.C.P.E. 7.11.1809.

Assistant surgeon Indian Medical Service 1782.

Publications

A Tract on the Biliary Complaints of Europeans in Hot Climates Founded on Observations in Bengal... (Calcutta, 1785)

On the Dissection of the Pangolin. In Asiatick Researches... Vol. 2. 5th ed. (London: J. Swan, 1807); 353 - 358

Death

Died at Calcutta [now Kolkata, India] 20.12.1814.

Sources

  • D.G. Crawford, Roll of the Indian Medical Service, 1615-1930 (London, 1930) B 285
  • P.J. Wallis and R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics (Newcastle, 1988)