Bright, RICHARD, physician, was born at Bristol, 28th September 1789, and studied at Edinburgh, Berlin, and Vienna, and from 1820 was connected with Guy's Hospital. He died 16th December 1858. He made many important medical observations (see BRIGHT'S DISEASE) and wrote numerous medical dissertations. His Travels through Lower Hungary (1818) contains a valuable account of the Gypsies.
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