Robley Dunglison
Portrait of Robley Dunglison by E.C. Bruce, 1848
Born	1798 Keswick, Cumbria, England
Died	1869 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Occupation	physician
Spouse(s)	Harriette Leadam

Robley Dunglison (1798–1869) was an English physician who moved to America to join the first faculty of the University of Virginia. He was personal physician to Thomas Jefferson and considered the "Father of American Physiology" ^[1].

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Marriage and children 1.2 Huntington's Disease 2 Works 2.1 Published works 3 Notes 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Biography

Robley Dunglison was born in Keswick, Cumbria, England. He studied medicine in London, Edinburgh, and Paris. He obtained his M. D. from the University of Erlangen, Germany, in 1823 ^[2]

In 1824, Thomas Jefferson and the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia commissioned Francis Walker Gilmer to find professors in England for his new University. Gilmer offered the anatomy and medicine professorship to Dunglison.^[3]

While at UVA, Dunglison published his landmark text Human Physiology (1832), which established his reputation as the “Father of American Physiology.” ^[4]

In 1832, Dunglison moved to the University of Maryland. Three years later Dunglison became Chair of the Institutes of Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence at the Jefferson Medical College (JMC) in Philadelphia, where he spent the rest of his career.

[edit] Marriage and children

After receiving an offer to become professor of anatomy and medicine at the University of Virginia, Dunglison rushed to marry Miss Harriette Leadam. They were married October 5, 1824, and left England for Virginia at the end of month.^[5]

• Harriette Elizabeth 1825 – 1841
• John Robley 1826 – ?
• a son, born in 1828, died of bronchitis at 11 months
• William Leadam 1832 – ?
• Richard James 1834 – 1901. Received MD at JMC in 1856. Editor of First American Edition of Gray's Anatomy in 1859^[6]
• Thomas Randolph 1837 – ?
• Emma Mary 1840 –

[edit] Huntington's Disease

One of Dunglison's recently graduated students at Jefferson Medical College, Charles Oscar Waters, provided his professor with a description of the "magrums" (a folk name for what is now called Huntington's_disease), which Waters knew from his travels in Westchester County, New York. Although he had never seen a case, Dunglison included a description of the disease in his 1842 textbook The Practice of Medicine. Waters account of the disease was one of the first to note that the disease is hereditary, "within the third generation at farthest". Another of Dunglison's students at Jefferson, Charles R. Gorman, wrote his thesis on the magrums as well. ^[7]

[edit] Works

[edit] Published works

• 1824 Commentaries on Diseases of the Stomach and Bowels of Children
• 1832 Human Physiology
• 1833 A New Dictionary of Medical Science and Literature
• 1837 The Medical Student; or, Aids to the Study of Medicine
• 1842 Medical lexicon. A dictionary of medical science ^[8]
• 1876 A Dictionary of Medical Science...^[9]

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

Dorsey, John M., ed. (1960) The Jefferson-Dunglison Letters. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.

[edit] External links

Flanagan, Dan (1996). Robley Dunglison Collection. Thomas Jefferson University: Philadelphia

The Microscope of Robley Dunglison. Made by James Smith, London in 1845

Persondata
NAME	Dunglison, Robley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Physician
DATE OF BIRTH	1798
PLACE OF BIRTH	Keswick, Cumbria, England
DATE OF DEATH	1869
PLACE OF DEATH	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania