"Scottish Physician" John Forbes Watson Hand Signed 2X4 Card For Sale
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"Scottish Physician" John Forbes Watson Hand Signed 2X4 Card:
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John
Forbes Watson (1827–1892) was a
Scottish physician and writer on India. Born in Scotland, Watson was the son Watson and his wife Jean McHardy. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen,
where he graduated M.A. in March 1847, and M.D. on 5 August 1847. He completing
his medical studies at Guy's Hospital, London, and in Paris. Watson
was appointed assistant surgeon in the Bombay army medical service in August
1850. He served with the artillery at Ahmednagar and with the Scinde horse at Khangarh (Jacobadad), and was then appointed assistant
surgeon to the Jamsetjee Hospital and
lecturer on physiology at Grant Medical College.
There for a time he also acted as professor of medicine and lecturer on
clinical medicine. Returning
to England on sick leave in 1853, Watson spent some time at the School of Mines in
London's Jermyn Street. He was then
appointed by the court of directors of the East India Company to
run an investigation into the food grains of India. In 1858 he was nominated by the
secretary of state reporter on the products of India and director of the India Museum, appointments which he held till the transfer
to South Kensington of
the India Museum at the end of 1879. His medical practice dropped back
from the mid-1850s. In 1874 Watson submitted to government a proposal for the
establishment of an Indian museum and library, together with an Indian institute
in a central position, where candidates for the civil service might pursue
oriental studies. His argument for a museum for India and the colonies was
supported by the Royal Colonial Institute,
and was a factor in the establishment of the Imperial Institute. He
represented India at the 1862 International
Exhibition in London, at the International Exposition
(1867) in Paris, and at the 1873 Vienna World's Fair;
and at the South Kensington annual exhibitions from 1870 to 1874. Foster
retired from the India Office in 1880, and died at Upper Norwood on 29 July 1892. He was elected a fellow of
the Linnean Society in
1889.
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