RARE "Scottish Physician" Sir Andrew Clark Clipped Signature For Sale

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RARE "Scottish Physician" Sir Andrew Clark Clipped Signature:
$699.99

Up for sale a VERY RARE! "Scottish Physician" Sir Andrew Clark Clipped Signature. This is one of the only known signatures to come to sale in the last 20 years as most document are housed in the permenant collection at the museum of the London Hospital.

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Sir

Andrew Clark, 1st Baronet (28 October

1826 – 6 November 1893), was a Scottish

physician and pathologist. He was born in Aberdeen,

the illegitimate son of Amelia Anderson and Andrew Clark. His father, who also

was a physician, died when he was only a few years old. After attending school

in Aberdeen, he was sent by his guardians to Dundee,

attending the High School of Dundee and was then

apprenticed to a pharmacist. Upon returning to Aberdeen he began his medical

studies in the University there. Soon, however, he went

to Edinburgh,

where in the extra-academical school he had a student's career of the most

brilliant description, ultimately becoming assistant to Dr. John Hughes Bennett in the Pathology

Department of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and assistant

demonstrator of anatomy

to Robert Knox.

But symptoms of tuberculosis brought his academic life to a

close and, in the hope that the sea might benefit his health, he joined the

medical department of the Royal Navy in 1848. Next year he

became pathologist to the Haslar

Hospital where T.H. Huxley was one of his colleagues and in

1853 he was the successful candidate for the newly instituted post of curator

to the museum

of the London Hospital. There he intended to devote

all his energies to pathology, but circumstances brought him into active

medical practice. In 1854, the year in which he took his doctor's degree at

Aberdeen, the post of assistant physician to the hospital became vacant and he

was prevailed upon to apply for it. He was fond of telling how his tuberculosis

tendencies gained him the appointment. "He is only a poor Scotch

doctor," it was said, "with but a few months to live; let him have

it." He had it, and two years before his death publicly declared that of

those who were on the staff of the hospital at the time of his selection he was

the only one remaining alive. In 1854, he became a member of the Royal College of Physicians, and in 1858 a

fellow, and then went in succession through all the offices of honour the

College has to offer, ending in 1888 with the presidency, which he continued to

hold until his death. From the time of his selection as assistant physician to

the London Hospital, his fame rapidly grew until he became a fashionable doctor

with one of the largest practices in London, counting among his patients some

of the most distinguished men of the day. The great number of persons who

passed through his consulting-room every morning rendered it inevitable that to

a large extent his advice should become stereotyped and his prescriptions often

reduced to mere stock formulae, but in really serious cases he was not to be

surpassed in the skill and carefulness of his diagnosis and in his attention to

detail. He delivered the Lumleian

Lectures in 1867 and the Croonian

Lecture in 1885 to the Royal College of Physicians, both on the

subject of pulmonary conditions. He was created a baronet

in 1883 in recognition of his services to medical science. He was elected the

same year President of the Clinical Society of London. In June 1885

he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society  In spite of the claims of his practice he found time to

produce a good many books, all written in the precise and polished style on

which he used to pride himself. Doubtless owing largely to personal reasons,

lung diseases and especially lung fibrosis

formed his favourite theme, but he also discussed other subjects, such as kidney

failure, anemia, constipation, etc. He died in

London, after a paralytic stroke, and was buried at Essenden, near his country house at Hatfield, Hertfordshire.

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