Robley Dunglison
Robley Dunglison (4 January 1798 – 1 April 1869) was an English-American physician, medical educator and author who served as the first full-time professor of medicine in the United States at the newly founded
University of Virginia from 1824 to 1833. He authored multiple medical textbooks and is considered the "Father of American Physiology" after the publication of his landmark textbook ''Human Physiology'' in 1832. He was the personal physician to
Thomas Jefferson,
James Madison and
James Monroe. He consulted in the treatment of
Andrew Jackson and was in attendance at Jefferson's death.
He served as chair of materia medica, therapeutics, hygiene and medical jurisprudence at the
University of Maryland School of Medicine from 1833 to 1836 and chair of the Institutes of Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence at
Jefferson Medical College from 1836 to 1868. He assisted
William Beaumont in some of his experiments on gastric digestion and published the first description of
Huntington's disease in his textbook ''The Practice of Medicine'' in 1842.
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