James Johnson (surgeon and writer)
- James Johnson (surgeon and writer)
James Johnson (February 1777, Derry, Ireland-1875) was an influential British writer on diseases of tropical climates in the first half of the nineteenth century. [Harrison, M. (1992) Tropical Medicine in Nineteenth-Century India "The British Journal for the History of Science" 25:3, p.302]
Early life
At an early age of 15 he became an apprentice to a surgeon-apothecary in Antrim for 2 years. After spending further 2 years at Belfast, he moved to London for the surgeon's examination, which he passed in 1798. Immediately afterwards, he was appointed surgeons's mate on a naval vessel, on which he sailed to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. In 1800 he took part in an expedition to Egypt and, in 1803, sailed for India. [Lee, S. "(ed)" (2001) "Dictionary of National Biography" Adamant Media Corporation pp.457 ISBN:1402170661]
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