Henry Cullen
Scottish physician
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Henry Cullen FRSE FRCPE (c.1758 – 1790) was a British physician from Edinburgh, Scotland. He was chair and professor of medicine at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.[citation needed] 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.[1]
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.[2] In 1785 he was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh.[3][4]
