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Description: | inscr. base "JOSEPH BLACK M.D. 1788 Tassie F". MANU TASSIE, James; (Scottish; 1735-1799) 1788 Joseph Black was born in Bordeaux on 16 April 1728, one of fifteen children. When he was twelve, young Joseph was sent off to school in Belfast to learn Latin and Greek, and subsequently, aged 16, enrolled at Glasgow University in 1744 to study arts. After four years of this, his father persuaded Joseph to take up something more useful, so he chose medicine. The professor of medicine in Glasgow at this time was William Cullen who, the year before (1747), had instituted the first lectures in Chemistry. Black moved to Edinburgh in 1752 to further his medical studies, but returned to Glasgow in 1756 as Professor of Anatomy and Botany, and Lecturer in Chemistry, when William Cullen was appointed Professor of Medicine in Edinburgh. The following year, Black was appointed Professor of Medicine in Glasgow (actually, he arranged to "exchange" chairs with the professor of medicine because he didn't feel competent to teach anatomy or botany). He remained in Glasgow until 1766 when he succeeded Cullen to the chemistry and medicine chairs in Edinburgh. He never married, though it appears that he was "of a gentle and pleasing countenance", was popular with the ladies, and "performed on the flute with great taste and feeling". Black was a great frequenter of clubs, usually suitable for "highly respectable literary gentlemen", though it was apparently not unknown for him and his companions (who included Adam Smith, David Hume, Alexander Carlyle, James Hutton, amongst other celebrities of the time) occasionally, and accidentally, to visit less salubrious premises.
(Source: Chemistry Department: Glasgow University website) | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | HISTORICAL COLLECTION : HISTPER : UNIVERSITY HISTORY : HUNTER THE MAN_2007 : TASSIE_M : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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