History of william cullen

William Cullen () was a Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist. He is also known as a “central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment”, one of the most important professors at the Edinburgh Medical School and a pioneer of the artificial refrigeration.

William Cullen was born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire from a father William Cullen - a lawyer, and a mother Elizabeth Roberton of Whistlebury. His first school was the Old Grammar School of Hamilton after which, when he was 16, he began a General Studies arts course at the University of Glasgow.

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He was an apprentice to John Paisley, a Glasgow apothecary surgeon, who tough him medicine after which Cullen spent a year as surgeon on a merchant vessel trading between London and the West Indies. When he returned he spent two years as assistant apothecary to Mr.

Murray of Henrietta Street in London. After that, he returned to Scotland in to open a general medical practice