3-071-153 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Dr. A. Billing, F.R.S., 1881. Engraving from a photograph by M. Claudet. 'The death of this esteemed physician and man of science, at the venerable age of ninety, was announced some days ago. Dr. Archibald Billing, a native of Ireland,...was for some years physician to the London Hospital, Whitechapel, having been from 1817 to 1836 Professor of the Medical School there. While engaged at the London Hospital, he instituted the series of clinical lectures which have since become an established feature at the medical school at that institution, but resigned his appointment at the close of 1836, upon the establishment of the University of London...Dr. Billing was a large contributor to the medical Press, and author of "First Principles of Medicine." He was a member of a large number of learned societies, both in this country and on the Continent; was a Fellow of the Royal Society, one of the original members of the Microscopical Society, a Fellow of the Geological Society, and corresponding member of the medical societies of Dresden, Florence, Brussels, and New York. He was sometime President of the Hunterian Society, and Vice-President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Societies'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.