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4 unusual facts about Royal College of Physicians


Diabetic ketoacidosis

In his description, which he gave in an 1886 lecture at the Royal College of Physicians in London, he drew on reports by Adolph Kussmaul as well as describing the main ketones, acetoacetate and β-hydroxybutyrate, and their chemical determination.

Post-nominal letters

# Fellowship or membership of learned societies, academies or professional institutions (for example, RA, FRCP, FRGS, FRSA)

William Marcet

William Marcet FRS FRCP (13 May 1828 - 4 March 1900) was President of the Royal Meteorological Society

He carried out a number of field experiments in the Alps and the island of Tenerife on the effect of altitude on respiration and delivered the Croonian Lecture to the Royal College of Physicians in 1895 on the subject.


Anthony Yates

After national service with the British Army in Kenya, Egypt, and the Suez Canal, he became a member of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1957.

Denis Noble

He was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1988 and an Honorary Fellow in 1994, an Honorary Member of the American Physiological Society in 1996 and of the Japanese Physiological Society in 1998.

Eli Friedman

His work has been recognized by the American College of Physicians which conferred the distinction of terming him a "Master." He received two honorary degrees (University of Madras, India and Long Island University, New York) and has been made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in the United Kingdom.

Hutchison baronets

The Hutchison Baronetcy, of Thurle in Streatly in the County of Berkshire, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 6 July 1939 for Robert Hutchison, President of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the Royal College of Physicians.

John Windebank

John Windebank (1618–1704) a doctor of medicine who was admitted an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1680 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Marcus de Laune Faunce

Marcus de Laune "Marc" Faunce, CVO, AM, OBE, FRCP, FRACP (5 December 1922 – 14 June 2004) was a Canberra consultant physician, head of Royal Canberra Hospital, doctor to five Australian Prime Ministers and six Governors-General of Australia and former Senior Physician Consultant to the RAAF.

Nimal Gunaratne

He holds a Diploma in Family Medicine and two Diplomas in Aviation medicine from the Bangalore University and the Royal College of Physicians.

Norman Wettenhall

Henry Norman Burgess Wettenhall, AM, MBBS, MD, MRACP, FRCP, FMV, FRAOU, 1915-2000.

Regent's Park tube station

Nearby points of interest are Regent's Park itself, the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Physicians, Holy Trinity Church, Portland Place and Harley Street.

Robert Roland Hughes

Robert Roland Hughes MB ChB MD FRCP (1911 - 1991) was a British neurologist and pioneer of Electroencephalography and neurology.

Royal College

Although many institutions are formally Royal Colleges, such as the three royal public schools of Westminster, Winchester and Eton, the phrase "The Royal Colleges" is commonly applied to the medical institutions, such as the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians, and the Royal College of Nursing and similar institutions in Australia, Canada, and elsewhere.

Samuel Dagogo-Jack

Dr. Dagogo-Jack earned a medical degree (MBBS) from the University of Ibadan Medical School in Nigeria, was a resident in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, University of Newcastle, UK, and was certified as a member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) in 1982.

The Linacre Quarterly

The journal is named after Thomas Linacre, the English physician and Catholic priest, who founded the Royal College of Physicians.

Walter Langdon-Brown

He was the author of a number of medical textbooks, a lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians, and went on to become Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge University.

William Henry Thorman

By 1897 Thorman was a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, becoming House Surgeon and Resident Medical Officer at the Royal United Hospital in Bath, Somerset.

Woodwardian Professor of Geology

Woodward's will left to the University a large collection of fossils and also dictated that the professor should be elected by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Ely, the President of the Royal Society, the President of the Royal College of Physicians, the Member of Parliament for the University of Cambridge, and the University Senate.


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Andrzej Szczeklik

Szczeklik is a member of numerous scientific societies, such as the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in the Vatican and Royal College of Physicians in London, UK (honorary member), American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology, European Academy of Allergy Clinical Immunology, European Respiratory Society, International Society of Thrombosis Haemostasis, Polish Academy of Sciences.

George Venables-Vernon, 2nd Baron Vernon

Bradwall Hall, near Sandbach, Cheshire was owned by the Barons of Kinderton until it was conveyed to John Latham M.D., president of the Royal College of Physicians.

Meyer Löw Schomberg

William Munk, The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 2 vols.

Seductive Poison

Dr. Anthony Storr Professor of Psychiatry, Fellow at the Royal College of Physicians, and Emeritus Fellow at Green College at Oxford, and a former Clinical Lecturer in Psychiatry at Oxford University wrote: "Deborah Layton vividly describes her initial intense involvement with Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple and her eventual risky escape from a promised utopia which had turned into a concentration camp. This book is both gripping and revealing."

Thomas Linacre

Reference may also be made to William Munk's Roll of the Royal College of Physicians (2nd ed., London, 1878); and the Introduction, by J. F. Payne, to a facsimile eproduction of Linacre's version of Galen de temperamentis (Cambridge, 1881).

Windebank

John Windebank (1618–1704), an English physician who was admitted an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1680 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.