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Basham was born at Diss, Norfolk.
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William Basham
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1804–1877) was an English physician. He was at first placed in a banking house, but entered as a student at Westminster Hospital in 1831. In 1833 he went to Edinburgh, and took his Doctor of Medicine degree in the following year.
After this he made a voyage to China, where, in a skirmish on the Canton River, he received a wound in the legal
In 1843 he was appointed physician to the Westminster Hospital, and he devoted himself to the school, giving lectures on medicine until 1871.
