Brisbane, John

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Dates c.1758-1770s
Location London
Vocation Physician
Place of Birth Scotland
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Place of birth Source Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Graduated MD at University of Edinburgh in 1750. Became licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1766. Brisbane held post of physician to the Middlesex Hospital, London, 1758-1773 - superseded for being absent without leave and name disappears from the college list in 1776. Author of 'Select Cases in the Practice of Medicine' (1772) and 'Anatomy of Painting: with an Introduction Giving a Short View of Picturesque Anatomy' (1769)