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unusual facts about William Cullen, Baron Cullen of Whitekirk


Rail Accident Investigation Branch

The Cullen Report into the Ladbroke Grove rail crash in 1999 recommended the establishment of an accident investigation body within the Department for Transport along the same lines as the Marine Accident Investigation Branch and the Air Accident Investigation Branch, bodies that have distinguished themselves by their professionalism and objectivity.


Edward McCombie McGirr

century physician William Cullen who almost 200 years before had, like himself, been educated at the Hamilton Academy school and Glasgow University.

Glasgow Ice Cream Wars

Lord Cullen and Lord Sutherland both opined that it would have not, with Lord McCluskey dissenting.

Moral treatment

Interest in mental illness was a feature of the Edinburgh medical school in the eighteenth century, with influential teachers including William Cullen (1710–1790) and Robert Whytt (1714–1766) emphasising the clinical importance of psychiatric disorders.


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