Nathaniel Spens
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Nathaniel Spens was a Scottish medical doctor who qualified as Fellow of the Incorporation of Surgeons and then became increasingly interested in the practice of physic. He qualified as a Fellow of th
Dr Nathaniel Spens (1728 -1815) in the uniform of the Royal Company of Archers. 1793. Reproduction of the original painting by Sir Henry Raeburn.
The Harveian Society of Edinburgh was founded in April 1782 by Andrew Duncan. The society holds an annual festival in honour of the life and works of William Harvey, the physician who first correctly
Nathaniel Spens
…college and its president in 1794. In 1773 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club. On 12 April 1782 Spens was one of the founding members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as President in 1789. He purchased in 1792, the estate of Craigsanquhar, in Fife which had once been part of the family estate of Lathallan…
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Sigill of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh