Life

He was a grandson of John Gregory

John Gregory (moralist)

John Gregory , a.k.a. John Gregorie, was an eighteenth-century Scottish physician, medical writer and moralist....

, and second son of the Rev. William Gregory, one of the six preachers

Six Preachers

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 of Canterbury Cathedral

Canterbury Cathedral

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; he was born at Canterbury

Canterbury

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 on 16 August 1790. After his father's death in 1803 he lived with his uncle, Dr. James Gregory

James Gregory (physician)

James Gregory FRSE FRCPE was a Scottish physician and classicist.-Early life and education:He was the eldest son of John Gregory and Elizabeth Forbes , and was born in Aberdeen...

, in Edinburgh. He studied medicine in 1806-9 at Edinburgh University, and afterwards at St. George's Hospital, London, and the Windmill Street School of Medicine. He graduated M.D. Edinb. in 1811, became M.R.C.S. Engl. in 1812.

In 1813 was sent as assistant-surgeon to the British forces in the Mediterranean, where he served in Sicily

Sicily

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 and at the capture of Genoa

Genoa

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. At the end of the Napoleonic Wars

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 he retired on half-pay, and began to practise in London. He gave lectures on medicine at the Windmill Street School, and later at St. Thomas's Hospital. He was physician to the Small-pox and Vaccination Hospital from 1824, and to the General Dispensary.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was elected a licentiate (30 September 1816) and a fellow (30 September 1839) of the Royal College of Physicians

Royal College of Physicians

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. He died at Camden Square, London, on 25 January 1853.

Works

Gregory was a prolific writer in medical journals, and was a contributor to the Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine and to the Library of Medicine. His major works are:

• Elements of the Theory and Practice of Physic (1820, 2 vols.; 6th ed. 1846; 3rd American ed. 1831)
• Facts and Important Information from Distinguished Physicians and Other Sources (1842)
• Lectures on the Eruptive Fevers (1843)