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The fifth child of William Duncan, a merchant, and his wife Isabella Matthews, he was born on 29 April 1826 in Aberdeen.
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On Sterility in Woman Being the Gulstonian Lectures. Delivered in the Royal College of Physicians in February, 1883
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James Duncan
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After education at Aberdeen grammar school, he entered Marischal College, Aberdeen, studying Medicine and graduated Master of Arts He continued study at Edinburgh University in 1845, and, returning to Aberdeen, graduated Doctor of Medicine
Career
In April 1843. in 1846, before he was 21. Duncan spent the winter of 1846-1847 in Paris, attending the lectures of Gabriel Andral, Jean Cruveilhier, Mathieu Orfila, and Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie Velpeau. He returned in April 1847, and shortly became the assistant in Edinburgh of James Young Simpson.
He assisted Simpson in his experiments in anaesthetics, and on 4 November 1847 experimentally inhaled chloroform to the point of insensibility.
At the end of 1849, after some months of travel in attendance on the Marquess of Bute, Duncan began practice in Edinburgh, mainly as an obstetrician. He became a fellow of the Edinburgh College of Physicians in 1851, and in May 1853 began a course as an extra-academical lecturer on midwifery.
He built up a practice, and in 1861 was made physician to the ward for diseases of women in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1863 his proposer being Sir Robert Christison.
At this time he was living at 30 Charlotte Square a huge Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh"s New Town.
He wrote numerous papers on obstetrics, and from 1873 to 1875 was president of the Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh. In 1870, on the death of Simpson, Duncan was a candidate for the professorship of midwifery at Edinburgh, but was not elected. In 1877 the staff of Saint Bartholomew"s Hospital, meeting at the house of Sir William Savory, decided to ask him to accept the lectureship on midwifery, then vacant in their school, with the post of obstetric physician to the hospital.
He was elected, and came to live at 71 Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, London.
Duncan"s practice became large, and his standing in his profession high In 1890 his health began to fail, and he did not finish his usual course of lectures.
He went abroad in July, and after several attacks of angina pectoris he died at Baden-Baden in Germany on 1 September 1890. Duncan married, in 1860, Janet Hart Hotchkis, and had 13 children.
Duncan curette an endometrial biopsy curette
Duncan fold - "the folds on the peritoneal surface of the uterus immediately after delivery."
Duncan mechanism - one of the two mechanisms of placenta delivery, the other being the Schultz mechanism
Duncan position
Duncan ventricle - the cave of septum pellucidum.
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On Sterility in Woman
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On Sterility in Woman Being the Gulstonian Lectures. Delivered in the Royal College of Physicians in February, 1883
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On Sterility in Woman 1884 Hardcover
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On Sterility in Woman
Membership
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He immediately became a member of the College of Physicians of London, and in 1883 was elected a fellow, and delivered the Gulstonian lectures. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 7 June 1883, and in the same year was nominated by the Crown a member of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration.
