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663: 33: 187: 229:. In this capacity Sharpey gave the first complete course of lectures on physiology and minute anatomy. His lectures then continued for 38 years. Sharpey was appointed in 1840 one of the examiners in anatomy at the university of London, and he was also a member of the senate of the University. He was elected a 154:, and then returned to Paris, where he spent most of 1824. He then appears to have settled for a time in Arbroath, where he began to practise under his step-father, Dr Arrott; but he then set out on a long hike in Europe, by foot through France to Switzerland, and on to Italy. In 1828, he stayed at 241:
in November 1853, an office which he held until his retirement. He was also for 15 years, from April 1861, one of the members appointed by the Crown on the general council of medical education and registration. Sharpey was also one of the trustees of the
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Troubled by failure of his eyesight, about 1871 Sharpey retired from the post of secretary of the Royal Society, and in 1874 from his professorship at University College. In 1874 he received a
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Sharpey established himself in Edinburgh in 1829, and in the following year he obtained the fellowship of the College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, presenting a probationary essay
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in Blenheim Street. He went to Paris in the autumn, and remained there for nearly a year, learning clinical surgery from
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at 50 Torrington Square, London, on Sunday, 11 April 1880. He was buried with his parents in the graveyard of
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on 1 April 1802, the youngest son of the five children Mary Balfour and Henry Sharpy (sic), a shipowner from
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From 1829 to 1836 Sharpey was engaged in scientific work, of which the earliest outcome was his paper on
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In August 1823, Sharpey was awarded his doctorate (MD) from the University of Edinburgh, with his thesis
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William was educated at the high school in Arbroath and, in November 1817, began studies at the
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on 9 May 1839. In 1846 he described the skeletal loadbearing fibres that now bear his name,
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The information in the last two articles is also in his contribution on "Cilia" to
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In 1859 he received the honorary doctorate (LLD) for his literary works from the
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In July 1836 Sharpey was appointed to the chair of anatomy and physiology in the
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In 1821, Sharpey graduated with an MB ChB and was admitted a member of the
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On a Peculiar Motion excited in Fluids of the Surfaces of Certain Animals
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A Probationary Essay on the Pathology and Treatment of False Joints
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An Account of Professor Ehrenberg's Researches on the Infusoria
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to broaden his anatomical experience in the private school of
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Remarks on a supposed Spontaneous Motion of the Blood
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of bone and anchor bone to tendon (W. Sharpey, 1846).
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Here he made the acquaintance of 16:Scottish anatomist and physiologist 13: 513: 181: 108:, firstly studying humanities and 101:who died before Sharpey was born. 14: 1032: 854:Gilbert Wakefield Mackmurdo 679:Dictionary of National Biography 661: 545:Dictionary of National Biography 458:Tait, John (23 September 1927). 639:. T&A Constable, Edinburgh. 344: 336:—fibers that join together the 643: 626: 610: 601: 552: 451: 141:Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin 1: 444: 295:pension from the government. 286: 216:Harveian Society of Edinburgh 139:, and operative surgery from 121:Edinburgh College of Surgeons 88: 1001:Fellows of the Royal Society 899:Clement Tudway Swanston 794:Thomas William Fletcher 769:Edward Davies Davenport 651:Dorland's Medical Dictionary 559:Taylor, D. W. (April 1971). 210:in 1834, his proposer being 7: 799:William James Frodsham 484:10.1126/science.66.1708.267 231:Fellow of the Royal Society 10: 1037: 325: 208:Royal Society of Edinburgh 932: 919:John Wesley Williams 829:James Halliwell-Phillipps 731: 577:10.1017/s0025727300016355 362:De Ventriculi Carcinomate 309: 152:De Ventriculi Carcinomate 54: 39: 30: 23: 869:H. Alexander Ormsby 539:"Sharpey, William"  460:"Lister as Physiologist" 166:, and after that was at 314:He was half-brother to 255:University of Edinburgh 190:William Sharpey in 1855 106:University of Edinburgh 1016:Scottish physiologists 904:James Joseph Sylvester 859:Samuel Roffey Maitland 357:. His works included: 191: 114:Professor John Barclay 435:Johannes Peter Müller 429:; and contributed to 212:Sir Robert Christison 189: 1006:People from Arbroath 940:Christopher Hansteen 889:George Leith Roupell 774:Henry Mangles Denham 382:, 1830, xxxiv. 113). 318:, head physician at 260:His pupils included 223:University of London 135:in the wards of the 93:Sharpey was born in 1011:Scottish anatomists 914:Charles Turnor 784:Henry Drummond 476:1927Sci....66..267T 427:Elements of Anatomy 415:Robert Bentley Todd 172:Friedrich Tiedemann 133:Guillaume Dupuytren 864:Henry Moseley 839:James Heywood 744:George Barker 739:Thomas Dyke Acland 433:'s translation of 409:, 1830, vol. xix.) 402:, 1833, vol. xv.). 370:, Edinburgh, 1830. 364:, Edinburgh, 1823. 281:Geological Society 192: 160:Bartolomeo Panizza 123:. He then went to 110:natural philosophy 963: 962: 945:Macedonio Melloni 874:William Reid 779:Richard Drew 754:Robert Carrington 441:, 1837 and 1840. 322:Royal Infirmary. 225:in succession to 62: 61: 1028: 950:Adolphe Quetelet 884:John Rogers 879:Robert Rigg 844:John Hilton 834:Peter Hardy 710: 703: 696: 687: 686: 683: 674:Sharpey, William 665: 664: 655: 647: 641: 640: 630: 624: 623: 614: 608: 605: 599: 598: 588: 556: 550: 549: 541: 534: 511: 510: 508: 506: 455: 333:Sharpey's fibers 270:Burdon Sanderson 244:Hunterian Museum 235:Sharpey's fibres 35: 21: 20: 1036: 1035: 1031: 1030: 1029: 1027: 1026: 1025: 966: 965: 964: 959: 928: 894:William Sharpey 824:George Gulliver 749:Beriah Botfield 727: 714: 671: 662: 659: 658: 648: 644: 631: 627: 616: 615: 611: 606: 602: 565:Medical History 557: 553: 536: 535: 514: 504: 502: 456: 452: 447: 355:Quain's Anatomy 347: 328: 312: 289: 184: 182:Academic career 91: 65:William Sharpey 50: 44: 26: 25:William Sharpey 17: 12: 11: 5: 1034: 1024: 1023: 1018: 1013: 1008: 1003: 998: 993: 988: 983: 978: 961: 960: 958: 957: 952: 947: 942: 936: 934: 930: 929: 927: 926: 921: 916: 911: 906: 901: 896: 891: 886: 881: 876: 871: 866: 861: 856: 851: 849:John Hogg 846: 841: 836: 831: 826: 821: 816: 814:John T. 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Arbroath
FRS
FRSE
anatomist
physiologist
physiology
Arbroath
Folkestone
University of Edinburgh
natural philosophy
Professor John Barclay
Edinburgh College of Surgeons
London
Joshua Brookes
Guillaume Dupuytren
Hôtel Dieu
Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin
James Syme
Padua
Bartolomeo Panizza
Karl Rudolphi
Heidelberg
Friedrich Tiedemann
Vienna

Allen Thomson
Extramural School of Medicine in Edinburgh
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Sir Robert Christison

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