Robert James Nicholl Streeten

{{short description|British physician and medical editor}}

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Robert James Nicholl Streeten {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FLS}} (born 28 June 1800, London – 10 May 1849, Worcester) was a British physician and medical editor and secretary of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association.

The eldest of eight (or perhaps nine{{cite web|title=Dr. John Mitchell Streeten - Paget Family|website=anatpro.com|url=http://www.anatpro.com/index_files/John_Mitchell_Streeten.htm}}) children of John Mitchell Streeten and Maria Streeten (née Crane), Robert J. N. Streeten was educated at home until he matriculated at the University of Edinburgh in 1820. After studying there until 1822, Robert Streeten studied in Paris in 1822–1823 and returned in 1823 to Edinburgh, graduating in 1824 M.D. Edin. with doctoral thesis De delirio tremente. At Edinburgh he became clinical clerk to the physician and botanist Robert Graham (whom he accompanied on a walking tour to the Highlands). Soon after taking his degree, Streeten was appointed a physician to the Worcester Royal Infirmary and was soon elected a member of "Physicians to the Dispensary" (i.e. Fellow of the Royal Public Dispensary of Edinburgh).{{cite journal|journal=Prov Med Surg J|volume=13|issue=12|date=13 June 1849|pmc=2487767|pmid=20794665|title=Biographical Notice of Robert James Nicholl Streeten, M.D., F.L.S.|pages=318–323}} In 1836 he became a member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh.{{cite book|title=The Botanical Society of Edinburgh: Instituted 17th March 1836|page=26|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vUJCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA26|year=1840}} In 1846 he became a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.{{cite journal|title=Obituary. Robert John Nicholl Streeten|journal=Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London|volume=1–2|date=24 May 1849|page=48|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CPeL70RFU30C&pg=RA1-PA48}}

{{blockquote|He took an active part in the formation of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, and contributed numerous papers to the 'Midland Medical and Surgical Reporter,' and to its successor the 'Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal,' published under the auspices of the Association, of which in 1843 he became Secretary, and soon after took upon himself the duties of responsible editor of the Journal. He was also author of some papers in the 'Transactions' of the Association, and in the 'British and Foreign Medical Review.'}}

Streeten was the editor-in-chief of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal from 1844 until his death in 1849.

• [https://books.google.com/books?id=-BNQAAAAYAAJ&dq=Dr+George+Sampson+ipswich&pg=PA450 Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal, 1844]