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Henry Dewar (1771–1823),〔Erskine Beveridge, ''A Bibliography of Works relating to Dunfermline and the West of Fife'' (1901), p. 60 note 3; (archive.org ).〕 originally Henry Frazer or Fraser, was a Scottish minister turned physician, known as a writer. ==Life== His father was John Frazer, minister of the Associate Church at Auchtermuchty, in Fife, Scotland; his mother was Margaret Erskine. He became minister of the Associate Church at Saltcoats in Ayrshire, in 1796, but within months inherited an estate through his mother, at Lassodie, Beath, in the Fife coalfield. The inheritance required that he changed his name to Dewar: it originated with his great-grandfather Ralph Erskine and his first wife Margaret Dewar. At this point Dewar left the ministry.〔〔(Scottish Mining, ''Lassodie History''. )〕 Dewar began a new life as an army surgeon, with the 30th Regiment of Foot.〔Edward Mansfield Brockbank, ''Sketches of the Lives and Work of the Honorary Medical Staff of the Manchester Infirmary, from its foundation in 1752 to 1830 when it became the Royal Infirmary'' (1904), pp. 214–5; (archive.org ).〕 In Egypt under Ralph Abercromby, he underwent some formative experiences, writing later on dysentery〔''Observations on diarrhoea and dysentery, particularly as these diseases appeared in the British campaign of Egypt in 1801'' (London, 1805)〕 and ophthalmia. He also came under the influence of French physicians (Savaresi, Larrey, and Desgenettes).〔Catherine Kelly, ''Medicine and the Egyptian Campaign: The Development of the Military Medical Officer during the Napoleonic Wars c. 1798–1801''; (PDF, p. 334. )〕 Dewar graduated M.D. at Edinburgh in 1804, with a dissertation ''De ophthalmia Aegypti''. He was a Manchester Infirmary staff physician, from 1804 to 1808, a common step for Edinburgh medical graduates because of the breadth of professional experience there. He became a member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society in 1806.〔''Complete list of the members & officers of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, from its institution on 28 February 1781, to 28 April 1896'' (1896), p. 22; (archive.org ).〕 He then returned to Edinburgh, becoming a member of the Royal College of Physicians there and lecturer at the Medical Institution.〔 He may have dropped medical practice, and become a writer. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1816. 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「Henry Dewar (physician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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