Alexander Copland Hutchison
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Alexander Copland Hutchison
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Alexander Copland Hutchison FRSE (1786–1840) was a British surgeon and medical author remembered for his book Practical Observations in Surgery (1811). In 1818 he made an interesting observation that navy personnel suffered exceptionally low levels of kidney stones totalling eight cases over a 15-year period (1800–1815) within a minimum of 145,000 subjects per year. Taking all factors into account he calculated a total rate of approximately 1 in 11,000. Whilst the data was clear the cause was no
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British surgeon and medical author
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