Andrew Wynter

Andrew Wynter (1819- May 12, 1876, Chiswick) was an English physician and author.

Born in Bristol, Wynter studied medicine at St George's Hospital and set up a London practice. He edited the "British Medical Journal" 1845-60, took a M.D. in 1853 and became a member of the College of Physicians in 1861. Wynter was a frequent contributor to periodicals, including "Ainsworth's Magazine", the "Cornhill Magazine", "Fraser's Magazine," the "Edinburgh Review", the "Quarterly Review", the "London Review", "Good Words", and "Once a Week". Many of his contributions were collected and reissued as books. As a doctor, Wynter specialized in insanity, taking wealthy patients as residents at his Chiswick home.

Works

* "Pictures of Town from my Mental Camera" (1855), by 'Werdna Retnyw'
* "Odds and Ends from an Old Drawer" (1855), by 'Werdna Retnyw'
* "Curiosities of Civilisation: being Essays from the Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews" (1860)
* "Our Social Bees: Pictures of Town and Country, and other Essays" (1861)
* "Subtle Brains and Lissom Fingers: being some of the Chisel-Marks of our Industrial and Scientific Progress" (1863; 1877 enlarged ed., revised by Andrew Steinmetz)
* "Curiosities of Toil" (1870)
* "Peeps into the Human Hive" (1874, 2 vols)
* "Fruit between the Leaves" (1875, 2 vols)
* "The Borderlands of Insanity and other Allied Papers" (1875; 1877 enlarged ed., revised by J. M. Granville)

References

* P. W. J. Bartrip, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30163 ‘Wynter, Andrew (1819–1876)’] , "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 11 Sept 2007
* S. A. Allibone, "A critical dictionary of English literature", 1859-71