Francis Home practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Francis Home as Scottish physician (1719-1813).
Francis Home was born at Edinburgh in 1719. He trained at University of Edinburgh and Leiden University.
Hospitals became teaching institutions in this period, and clinical observation began to be recorded systematically.
His posts were held at University of Edinburgh.
The recorded fields of work are medicine.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
Recognition followed: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
Francis Home died in 1813, aged 94. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
- Held posts at University of Edinburgh
- Fields: medicine
