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William Fergusson M.D. (1773–1846) was a Scottish inspector-general of military hospitals, and medical writer. ==Life== He was born at Ayr 19 June 1773 into a prominent local family. From the Ayr academy he went to attend the medical classes at Edinburgh, where he graduated M.D., afterwards attending the London hospitals. In 1794 he became assistant-surgeon in the army, and served in Holland, the West Indies, the Baltic, the Iberian Peninsula, and in the expedition against Guadeloupe in 1815. Fergusson is widely quoted (though often misspelt) as a source of accounts of the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801, where he was present (as Staff-Surgeon of the troops embarked) with Admiral Lord Nelson on the flagship Elephant, before being entrusted with the conveyance of the British wounded to Yarmouth.〔James Harrison “The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson”, Vol. II (of 2) Page #11 ()〕〔Robert Southey “The Life of Lord Nelson” Chapter VII]()〕〔Thomas Joseph Pettigrew “Memoirs of the life of Vice-admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”()〕 Having retired from military service in 1817, he settled in practice at Edinburgh, but moved four years later to Windsor on the invitation of the Duke of Gloucester, on whose staff he had been for twenty years. He acquired a lucrative practice both in the town and country around, which he carried on till 1843, when he was disabled by paralysis. He died in January 1846. His personal papers are preserved in the library of the University of Yale.〔(Guide to the William Fergusson Papers )〕 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「William Fergusson (physician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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