Curtis, Richard ♂

Education

M.D. 4.6.1792 on testimonials signed by John Smith, Doctor of Physic and Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford and Francis Riolley F.R.C.P.L. and late Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford.

Birth/childhood

Born 1722 possibly son of Thomas Curtis who was previlegiatus 1732 (apothecary) at Oxford University.

Career

Studied medicine at Oxford University.

For many years an eminent apothecary in the University of Oxford.

Writer on teeth.

A treatise on the structure and formation of the teeth. (Oxford: W. Jackson, 1769)

Sources

• P.J. Wallis and R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics (Newcastle, 1988)