william cullen

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Definition of william cullen in English English dictionary

born April 15, 1710, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scot. died Feb. 5, 1790, Kirknewton, near Edinburgh Scottish physician and professor. One of the first to teach in English rather than Latin, he was celebrated for his clinical lectures, which he gave in the infirmary from his own notes instead of a text. He taught that life was a function of nervous energy and that muscle was a continuation of nerve. His influential classification of disease included febrile diseases, nervous diseases, diseases produced by bad bodily habits, and local diseases

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born Nov. 3, 1794, Cummington, Mass., U.S. died June 12, 1878, New York, N.Y. U.S. poet. At age 17 Bryant wrote "Thanatopsis," a meditation on nature and death that remains his best-known poem; influenced by deism, it in turn influenced Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Admitted to the bar at age 21, he spent nearly 10 years as an attorney, a profession he hated. His Poems (1821), including "To a Waterfowl," secured his reputation. In 1825 he moved to New York City, where for almost 50 years (1829-78) he was editor in chief of the Evening Post, which he transformed into an organ of progressive thought

Hyphenation

Wil·liam Cul·len

Turkish pronunciation

wîlyım kʌlın

Pronunciation

/ˈwəlyəm ˈkələn/ /ˈwɪljəm ˈkʌlən/