Whitlock Nicholl

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Whitlock Nicholl (around 1821)

Whitlock Nicholl (born September 1, 1786 in Treddington , Worcestershire , † December 3, 1838 in Wimbledon , London ) was an English doctor .

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Whitlock Nicholl was the fifth of six children of Iltyd Nicholl (1743–1787) and Anne Hatch (1758–1839). He grew up with his uncle Reverend John Nicholl (1746-1830). In 1802 he began training with a general practitioner in Cowbridge ( Glamorganshire ). Three years later he became a student at St. George's Hospital in London, where he studied with Everard Home (1756-1832). In 1808 Nicholl became a general practitioner at Lock Hospital in London . A year later he passed the entrance exam for the Royal College of Surgeons of England . Nicholl returns to Cowbridge and has a joint practice with his former instructor, which he continues to operate after his retirement. He graduated from Marischal College in Aberdeen in 1816 with a doctorate in medicine (MD). For some time Nicholl ran a practice in Ludlow , which he gave up in 1826 to move to Wimbledon in London.

On February 18, 1830, the Royal Society accepted him as a member. Nicholl published numerous medical works and some theological writings.

The terms electrode for the entry and exit surfaces of the current, electrolysis for the process itself and electrolyte for the substance in question, introduced by Michael Faraday to describe the process of electrochemical decomposition, go back to Whitlock Nicholl .

Fonts (selection)

  • A Sketch of the Economy of Man . London 1819.
  • General elements of pathology . J. Callow, London 1820 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  • Practical remarks on disordered states of the cerebral structures occurring in infants . J. Callow, London 1821.
  • An analytical view of christianity: pursued throughout the historical and prophetical books of the Old and New Testament . J. Hatchard & Son, London 1822.

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literature

  • S. Ross: Faraday Consults the Scholars: The Origins of the Terms of Electrochemistry . In: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London . Volume 16, number 2, 1961, pp. 187-220, doi : 10.1098 / rsnr.1961.0038 .
  • A slight sketch of the life of Whitlock Nicholl: together with a few manuscripts, written during his leisure hours and left unfinished at the time of his death . WA Wright, 1841.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Family tree

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personal data
SURNAME Nicholl, Whitlock
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English doctor
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Treddington , Worcestershire
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1838
Place of death Wimbledon , London