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Helenus Scott M.D. (1760–1821) was a Scottish physician. ==Life== He was born at Dundee, and studied medicine at Edinburgh from 1777 to 1779. He entered the medical service of the East India Company, and served chiefly in the Bombay presidency. Scott became a correspondent of Sir Joseph Banks in London. At the beginning of 1790 he responded to a request from Banks on the cotton industry with an extensive report. Later that year he sent Banks samples of wootz steel.〔Robert Hadfield, ''A Research on Faraday's "Steel and Alloys"'', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical or Physical Character Vol. 230, (1932), pp. 221-292, at p. 225. Published by: The Royal Society. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/91231〕 He played a part in the founding of the botanical gardens in Bombay, in 1791. Scott worked also as an agent for the local manufacture of gunpowder in Bombay, and spirits, from 1796.〔H. A. Young, ''The Indian Ordnance Factories and Indian Industries'', Journal of the Royal Society of Arts Vol. 72, No. 3715 (February 1, 1924), pp. 175-188, at p. 180. Published by: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41356452〕 On 24 July 1797 he was created M.D. by the University of Aberdeen.〔 He carried out the first successful vaccination in Bombay, in 1802. After thirty years in India Scott returned to England, and began practice at Bath, Somerset. On 22 December 1815 he was admitted a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, and in 1817 began to practise as a physician in Russell Square, London. He attained to considerable practice, and died on 16 November 1821.〔 He was then at sea, on HMS Britomart, voyaging with two of his sons to Australia. 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「Helenus Scott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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