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Francis Cornelius Webb (1826–1873) was an English physician and medical writer. ==Life== Born in Hoxton Square east of London on 9 April 1826, he was the eldest son of William Webb, a cadet of the family of Webb of Odstock Manor, by his second wife, Elizabeth Priscilla, daughter of Thomas Massett. He was educated at King's College School, London, and at Devonport Grammar School. On 25 September 1841 Webb was apprenticed to James Sheppard, a surgeon at Stonehouse, and in 1843 he joined the medical school of University College, London. He was awarded five gold and silver medals for proficiency in different classes. In 1847 he became a member of the College of Surgeons of London; in 1849 he went to Edinburgh, graduating M.D. there in 1850. In 1851 he returned to London.〔 In 1859 Webb was appointed a member of the Royal College of Physicians, and he was elected a fellow on 31 July 1873. In 1857 he was nominated to the chair of medical jurisprudence in the Grosvenor Place school of medicine, and subsequently he was lecturer on natural history at the Metropolitan School of Dental Science. At the end of the 1860s he became one of the editors of the ''Medical Times and Gazette'', and for the last years of his life he was editor-in-chief.〔 Webb was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 22 May 1856, of the Linnean Society on 21 January 1858, and of other learned bodies. He died on 24 December 1873, and was buried at Highgate cemetery.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Francis Cornelius Webb」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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