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Dr James Jeffray (1759-1848)

Noted surgeon and Professor of Anatomy, Physiology and Botany at the University of Glasgow between 1790 and 1848.

Famous for public dissections, with Dr Andrew Ure, of the bodies of the bodies of the executed, the most famous of which was that of Matthew Clydesdale in 1818 when he used galvanic cells to stimulate the corpse.

The professor owned an estate at Cardowan on the course of the Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway of which he was one of the promoters.

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