Day, George Edward ♂
Education
Professor of Medicine 23.10.1849 - 16.5.1863 (resigned).
Birth/childhood
Born 4.8.1815 (baptised 11.8.1815 at Tenby) son of George Day, Manorabon House, Swansea and Jane [ ].
Career
Studied Cambridge University - B.A. 1837. M.A. 1840. Lic. Med. 1863. Giessen University - M.D. 1849.
M.R.C.P.L. 1844. F.R.C.P.L. 1847. F.R.S. 1850.
Physician London 1843. Lecturer on materia medica, Middlesex hospital. [University lecturer, doctor]
His secretary was Elise Otté. About 1860 had an accident on Helvelyn when he broke his arm in two places and dislocated his shoulder. The upper break never re-united.
Professor of Medicine 23.10.1849 - 16.5.1863 (resigned). [St Andrews University] [University professor]
Publications
A practical treatise on the domestic management and most important diseases of advanced life. (Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1849)
Retired to Torquay.
Death
Died 31.1.1872 at Andersey, Torquay.
Sources
- DNB
- J.A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses
- Edward Forbes memoir p337
- Edinburgh Medical Journal 17(2) 1872 p861
- Letter Mrs Wallhead 1.8.1983 who had in her family a cabinet presented to him by his students
- George Edward Day in Wikipedia and George Edward Day in Munk's Roll's Roll (Royal College of Physicians). Also, Day Collection in the Special Collections of the University of St Andrews Library.