Sir William Jenner, M.D. (born 1815), was the first to establish beyond dispute the difference between typhus and typhoid fevers.
John Hughes Bennett, M.D. (1812-1875), was the first to introduce the use of cod-liver oil in consumption into English practice (1841). He claimed also to have discovered leucocythemia before Virchow.
Alfred Swayne Taylor, M.D. (1806-1880), was the founder of forensic medicine in England, and his great work on Medical Jurisprudence (published 1836) has long been the standard authority in medico-legal cases.
Thomas Hodgkin (1797-1866) discovered the disease which goes by his name.
Charles Murchison, M.D. (1830-1879), is celebrated for his researches in epidemic diseases.
Sir Thomas Watson (1792-1882) was the author of the ever-popular lectures, The Practice of Physic, a work whose graces of style and elegance of phraseology entitle it to be considered a medical classic.
Matthew Baillie (1761-1823) was a famous pathologist. He devoted special attention to the pathology of the brain, heart, lungs, stomach, and intestines. It was he who first described the grey miliary tubercle of consumption. In all his profound researches he never failed to remember their practical end in the cure of disease.
John Abercrombie (1780-1844) is celebrated for his researches on diseases of the brain and spinal cord.
Richard Bright (1789-1858), the reformer of renal pathology, was the discoverer of the disease which bears his name.
Thomas Addison (1793-1860) discovered the disease of the suprarenal bodies which is called after him.