Thomas Castle
British physician and botanist (c.1805–1837)
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Thomas Castle (c.1805–1837)[1] was an English botanical and medical writer.
Life
Castle was born in Kent, and after leaving school became a pupil of John Gill, who as surgeon at Hythe; he went on to London to carry on his studies. He entered Guy's Hospital in 1826, and was a member of its Physical Society; in 1827 he was elected fellow of the Linnean Society, when he was living in Bermondsey Square in south London.[2]
Castle matriculated at The Queen's College, Oxford in 1830, and at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1831.[3] Subsequently, he moved to Brighton, and committed suicide in 1837.[1][2]
Works
Castle's publications were:[2]
- Lexicon Pharmacopœlium, London 1826, 2nd edit., 1834.
- Modern Surgery, 1828.
- Manual of Surgery, ed. by, 2nd edit. 1829, 3rd edit. 1831.
- Systematic and Physiological Botany, 1829.
- Medical Botany, 1829.
- Linnæan System of Botany, 1836.
- Essay on Poisons, 1834, 7th edit. 1845.
- Pharmacopœia, Roy. Coll. Phys., translator, 1837, 2nd edit. 1838.
- Table of Greek Verbs, Cambridge, 1832.
He also edited two editions of James Blundell's Diseases of Women, 1834 and 1837, and with Bernard Herbert Barton published a British Flora Medica, 1837, a second edition of which was edited in 1867 by John Reader Jackson.[2]
