William Cumberland Cruikshank

British physician and anatomist

William Cumberland Cruikshank
portrait by Gilbert Stuart

Born	1745 Edinburgh
Died	27 June 1800 (aged 54–55)

William Cumberland Cruikshank (1745 in Edinburgh – 27 June 1800) was a British physician and anatomist. He was the author of The Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels of the Human Body, which was first published in 1786.^[1]^[2]

He went to London in 1771 and became assistant to William Hunter in his anatomical work.^[1] In 1797, he was the first to demonstrate that a particular crystallizable substance exists in the urine and is precipitated from it by nitric acid.^[3]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1797.^[4]

Notes and references

^ ^a ^b Pilcher, Lewis Stephen (1918). A List of Books by Some of the Old Masters of Medicine and Surgery, p. 132. Brooklyn, New York.
^ Quain, Jones (1892). Quain's Elements of Anatomy, Vol. II, Part II, p. 546. London: Longmans, Green and Co.
^ Coulson, William (1857). On the diseases of the bladder and prostate gland , p. 15. Churchill.
^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 26 December 2010.^{[permanent dead link]}