Article Nº 1693 Physician or health professional Vol. II · pp. 188–189
Gourlay (Dr William)
Original title: Gourlay (Dr. William)
English physician resident in Madeira from 1792 for 18 years, author of a book on its natural history, climate and diseases (1811) whose weather data were questioned.
English physician who came to Madeira in 1792 and lived here for 18 years. Works: Observations on the Natural History, climate and diseases of Madeira during a period of eighteen years, London, 1811. The accuracy of the meteorological observations published in Gourlay’s work, covering the period from 1793 to 1803, has been questioned by several authors, among them the distinguished Portuguese physician Dr Barral.
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