Chalmers, Lionel ♂

Education

M.A. and M. D. 7.12.1756 on testimonial signed by Robert Whytt, Edinburgh. On 16.10.1758 he gets a new diploma on representing that the ship taking the other to him was taken by a privateer.

Birth/childhood

Born 6.5.1712 son of Robert Chalmers, Campbeltown and Elizabeth Campbell.

Career

Went to Charlestown in 1737. Practised a good many years in South Carolina and in 1756 is referred to as the chief physician there. Recorded meteorological observations. [Doctor]

Publications

An essay on fevers (London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1768)

Death

Died May, 1777.

Sources

• J.I. Waring, Hist. Med. So. Carolina p188 - 197
• Kelly, American medical biography