Henry Cullen
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Henry Cullen FRSE FRCPE ({{circa}}1758 – 1790) was a British physician from Edinburgh, Scotland. He was chair and professor of medicine at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}} From 1776 until his death in 1790 he was a physician-in-ordinary to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
Life
Born in Edinburgh, the son of eminent physician and chemist William Cullen (1710-1790) and Anne Johnstone (d.1786). His older brother was the Robert Cullen, later Lord Cullen. The family lived in Mint Close on The Canongate, home of the old Scottish Mint.Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory:1775-6
He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh and then studied medicine at University of Edinburgh graduating MD in 1780.
A member of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh when it received its royal charter, he also was a founding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783, as was his brother Robert Cullen.{{cite book
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|first1=Charles D
|last2=Macmillan Shearer
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|title=Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index
|url=http://www.rse.org.uk/fellowship/fells_indexp1.pdf
|accessdate=29 September 2010
|volume=I
|date=July 2006
|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh
|location=Edinburgh
|isbn=978-0-902198-84-5
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061004113545/http://www.rse.org.uk/fellowship/fells_indexp1.pdf
|archivedate=4 October 2006
}} In 1785 he was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh.{{Cite book|url=https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ww4e59xv|title= A Record of the Edinburgh Harveian Society|last=Watson Wemyss|first=Herbert Lindesay|publisher=T&A Constable, Edinburgh|year=1933|language=en}}{{Cite book|title=Minute Books of the Harveian Society|url=http://archives.rcpe.ac.uk/calmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DEP%2fHAR%2f1%2f1%2f1&pos=17|location= Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh}}
He died in Edinburgh on 11 October 1790 at age 32.{{Cite web |url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=18 December 2015 |archive-date=24 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |url-status=dead }}
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Category:Medical doctors from Edinburgh
Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Category:18th-century Scottish medical doctors
Category:Members of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh
Category:Founder fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Category:Physicians of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Category:Members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh
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