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DR. TWEEDIE JOHN TODD, physician and naturalist, was born at Berwick in 1789, the son of the borough treasurer. He studied medicine at Edinburgh and for several years served as a surgeon in the Navy, chiefly in the East Indies and at the Cape of Good Hope, where he made some experiments on the electric ray (Torpedo), which were afterwards published in the Philosophical Transactions. He retired from the Navy in 1816, and after spending some years in Italy settled in Brighton, where he soon acquired an extensive practice. He was the author of several papers on natural history which were published in the Philosophical Transactions and the Journal of Science and Arts, such as “The Regeneration of Parts in the Aquatic Salamander” and “The Luminous Power of Some of the Lampyrides”. His contribution to medical literature consisted of “The Book of Analysis. A New Method of Experience”, in which he endeavoured to apply Baconian induction to medicine and the other natural sciences. For many years he was engaged in a series of microscopical researches on living animals illustrative of different parts of physiological and pathological science and especially of the processes concerned in the healing and regeneration of wounded and lost parts. He left a large collection of microscope slides at the time of his death, which took place on August 4, 1840.
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Dr. Tweedie John Todd. Nature 146, 162 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146162a0
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