Anthony Todd Thomson
British physician, botanist, pharmacist and pioneer of dermatology
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Anthony Todd Thomson was a Scottish doctor and pioneer of dermatology. Life Anthony Todd Thomson was the younger son of Alexander Thomson and was born in Edinburgh, where his parents were staying temporarily, on 7 January 1778. His father was postmaster-general and a member of the council of the Province of Georgia, and collector of customs for the town of Savannah. Anthony returned to America with his parents soon after Anthony Todd, postmaster of Edinburgh, had stood sponsor to him as his godson; but when peace was declared after the American War of Independence, his father, in common with many American loyalists, threw up his appointments, and settled in Edinburgh with a small pension from the government. Thomson was brought up by Mrs. Rennie, who afterwards became his stepmother. He was educated at the Royal High School, and was nominated, by his godfather's interest, to a clerkship in the Edinburgh post office. He graduated doctor of medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1799, and in November of the same year he became a member of the Royal Medical Society. He had previously been admitted a member of the Speculative Society, on 27 February 1798, and there formed a lifelong friendship with Lord Brougham, having already gained the affection of Henry Cockburn. He spent the next twenty five years as a GP in Sloane Street, Chelsea.
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