William Prout
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William Prout FRS was an English chemist, physician, and natural theologian. He is known for proposing the Prout's hypothesis.
Portrait of William Prout by Henry Wyndham Phillips
Different species of urinary calculi noted by William Prout
Prout's hypothesis, 1947
Bridgewater Treatises
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The Bridgewater Treatises are a series of eight works that were written by leading scientific figures appointed by the President of the Royal Society in fulfilment of a bequest of £8000, made by Franc
William Prout
…He delivered the Goulstonian Lecture to the Royal College of Physicians in 1831 on the application of chemistry to medicine. Prout wrote the eighth Bridgewater Treatise, Chemistry, Meteorology, and the Function of Digestion, considered with reference to Natural Theology. It was in this work that he coined the term…
A set of the Bridgewater Treatises, rebound in leather, together with Charles Babbage's Ninth Bridgewater Treatise