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16. BLACK, PATRICK (_2 son of colonel Patrick Black of the Bengal cavalry who d. about 1819_). _b._ Aberdeen 1813; ed. at Eton 1828–30 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1834, M.D. 1836; F.R.C.P. 1845, censor 3 times, Croonian lecturer 1855: assistant phys. to St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1842, warden of the medical school 1851–56, physician and clinical lecturer 1860–78, lecturer on medicine 1861–78; author of _Chloroform how shall we ensure, safety in its administration_ 1855; _Essay on the Spleen_ 1876; revised the Latin part of the _Nomenclature of diseases_ for Royal College of Phys. 1867. _d._ 11 Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq. London 12 Oct.