Barclay, JOHN, M.D.

Barclay, JOHN, M.D., anatomist, was born 10th December 1758, in Perthshire, Scotland, and died in Edinburgh, 21st August 1826. He was educated at St Andrews, and studied for the ministry, but afterwards devoted himself to medicine. He obtained the degree of M.D. from the university of Edinburgh in 1796, where he became a private lecturer, and in 1804 he was formally recognised as lecturer on anatomy and surgery by the College of Surgeons. He was mainly instrumental in founding the Dick Veterinary College in Edinburgh. He published between 1803 and 1822, A New Anatomical Nomenclature, Muscular Motions, Arteries of the Human Body, and An Inquiry into the Opinions concerning Life and Organisation.