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Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1783–1862)
McMaster University Faculty of Medicine, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8N 3Z5, Canada
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Benjamin Collins Brodie (Fig. 1
) was born in Winterslow, Wiltshire, England. His father, a clergyman, was a classical scholar, who had his son educated at home rather than at one of the English public schools and universities. In 1801 the 18-yr-old Benjamin was ready to take up his medical studies in London, where he attended the anatomy lectures of John Abernethy (1764–1831), a pupil of John Hunter (1728–1793), at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and later at the Great Windmill Street School of Medicine established by the older Hunter brother, William (1718–1783). Two years later Brodie became the trainee of Sir Everard Home (1756–1832), the brother-in-law of John Hunter, at St. George's Hospital, London, where he graduated in 1805. It
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