The Cullen Project | People [PERS ID:477]

People [PERS ID:477]

Field	Data
ID	477
Title	Dr
First Name	John
Middle Name/Initial(s)
Last Name	Heysham
Maiden Name
AKA
Gender	Male
Occupation	Physician, Demographer and Medical Writer
Medical Professional?	Medical Professional

Birth/Death

Birth/Death
Birth (year)	1753
Date of death (year)	1834

Notes


A leading physician and demographer. Studied medicine at Edinburgh attending the lectures of Alexander Monro Secundus, Joseph Black, and Cullen, graduating MD in 1777. Settled in Carlisle where he practiced medicine but also had successful business interests. Published his own statistical findings on fevers and mortality rates.

Cases that this person appears in:

Count	Case ID	Case Name
1	Case 794	Case of Mr Thomas Irwin [Irwine] who suffers from swollen legs, itchiness and biliousness and which eventually proves fatal.
2	Case 986	Case of Miss Hodgson, who has diarrhoea and symptoms suggesting consumption.
3	Case 1002	Case of an unnamed 'young lady' attended by Dr Heysham for Typhus.
4	Case 1135	Case of Master John Leveck, a fourteen-year-old youth who has been deaf since suffering from scarlet fever.
5	Case 1245	Case of Miss Brown who has a very serious dry cough and other pulmonary symptoms which prove fatal.
6	Case 1409	Case of Captain Holmes who becomes increasingly weak, emaciated, swollen and eventually dies. Cullen had considered it an incurable case of hypochondriasis and hereditary weak nerves.
7	Case 1591	Case of Dr Percy, Bishop of Dromore, who experiences a strange sensation in his head when he lies on one side which can lead to a complete 'loss of his faculties'.
8	Case 1592	Case of Barbara Percy, daughter of Dr Percy, whose pain in her side is diagnosed as a nervous, hysteric condition.
9	Case 1623	Case of Mrs Langton, a patient of Dr Heysham's who is 'strongly threatened with a Phthisis'.
10	Case 1830	Case of Miss Johanna Gale which Cullen finds 'dark' but he thinks it may be attributable to a visceral obstruction.
11	Case 1875	Case of an unnamed male patient who has 'for some years, been affected with an eruption which chiefly affects the back part of both his hands', as reported by Dr Heysham.
12	Case 2001	Case of George Gordon at Carnshalloch House, Kirkton near Dumfries (but his father appears to be in London), an infant who is being treated with laudanam.
13	Case 2002	Case of Francis Johnston at Carnsalloch House, Kirkton near Dumfries, an infant who has problems with deafness.
14	Case 2137	Case of an unnamed patient with diabetes.
15	Case 2160	Case of Mr Miller who requests to be bled.
16	Case 2494	Case of an unnamed patient of about 30, mentioned in relation to a cure for Anasarca and Ascetes.