Robert Willan MD FRS (1757–1812): Dermatologist of the Millennium

Booth CC. Robert Willan and his kinsmen. Med History 1981; 25: 181–96.

Booth CC. Robert Willan, M.D., F.R.S., F.S.A. Br J Dermatol 1968; 80: 459–67.

Corner B C , Booth C C. Chain of Friendship. Selected letters of Dr John Fothergill of London, 1735–1786. Cambridge, Mass: Bellknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971: 126, 149, 339.

Willan R. An Essay on the King's Evil. London: J & P Knapton, 1746.

Hare P J. A note on Robert Willan's Edinburgh days. Br J Dermatol 1973; 88: 615–17.

Boissier de Sauvages F. Nosologica methodica sistens morborum classes, juxta Sydenhami mentem et Botanicorum Ordinem. Amsterdam: Fratrum de Tourne, 1768.

Fox R H. Dr John Fothergill and his Friends. London: Macmillan, 1919.

Willan R. Experiments and Observations on the Sulphurous Waters of Croft and Harrowgate. London: J Johnson, 1786.

Booth C C. Ann Fothergill. The Mistress of Harpur Street. Proc Am Phil Soc 1978; 122: 340–54.

Kilpatrick R. ‘Living in the Light’; dispensaries, philanthropy, and medical reform in late eighteenth century London. In: Cunningham A , French R eds. The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990: 254–80.

Booth C C. ‘1773’. Annual oration, Medical Society of London, 1998. Proc Med Soc Lond (in press).

Martelli G. Jemmy Twitcher. A life of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich 1718–1782. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962.

Loudon I S L. The origins and growth of the dispensary movement in England. Bull Hist Med 1981; 55: 322–42.

George M D. London Life in the XVIIIth Century. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Turner, 1930: 86–7.

Balteau J , Barroux M , Prevost M , eds. Alibert, Jean-Louis-Marie. Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, Vol 1. Paris: Librarie de Letouzey et Ane, 1933: 1510–15.

Booth C C. The Fothergillian Medals of the Medical Society of London. J R Coll Physicians Lond 1981; 15: 254–8.

Beswick T S L. The solution of a ninety-year-old mystery. J Hist Med Allied Sci 1957; 12: 349–65.

Willan R. On Cutaneous Diseases. London: J Johnson, 1808.

MacCormac H. At the Public Dispensary with Willan and Bateman. Br J Dermatol 1933; 45: 35–8.

Smith A , ed. A Practical Treatise on Porrigo or Scalded Head, and on the Impetigo, the Humid or Running Tetter, by the late Robert Willan. London: E Cox & Son, 1814.

Bateman T. A Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous Diseases, According to the Arrangement of Robert Willan. London: Longmans, 1813.

Bateman T. Delineations of Cutaneous Disease, Exhibiting the Characteristic Appearances of the Principal Genera and Species, Comprised in the Classification of the late Dr Willan. London: Longmans, 1817.

Gentleman's Magazine 1812; 82, part 1: 595.