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DR. SHARPEY, whose death we regret to announce took place on Sunday, was born April 1, 1802. He entered on the study of medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1818. In the autumn of 1822 he came to London, where he spent three months in dissecting, and then proceeded to Paris, and occupied the following winter in the study of clinical medicine and surgery in the hospitals. In 1823 he graduated in Edinburgh, and subsequently was for a short time engaged in the practice of his profession in his native town, Arbroath. Soon afterwards he appears to have changed the plan of his life, and for the purpose of educating himself for the scientific career which he had resolved to adopt, he proceeded to the Continent. After spending several months, which were devoted to general culture, at Rome, Naples, and Florence, he resumed the study of anatomy at Pavia, under Panizza. The following years were spent partly in Edinburgh, partly in Paris, Vienna, Heidelberg, and, Berlin. At Berlin he became the pupil and friend of Rudolphi, and by laborious anatomical studies laid the foundation of his future success and eminence. In 1831 he began to lecture in Edinburgh on anatomy, having his friend Prof. Allen Thomson as his associate; and in 1836 was invited by the Council of the University of London, now University College, to accept the Chair of Anatomy and Physiology, which he occupied until 1874.
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William Sharpey M.D., F.R.S. . Nature 21, 567–568 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021567a0
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