Clifton Wintringham senior (baptized 1689 – 1748) was an English medical practitioner, appointed Physician at York County Hospital in March 1746.[1]

Life

Wintringham was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge,[2] and was admitted on 3 July 1711 as an Extra Licentiate of the College of Physicians, enabling him to practice medicine.[3] He practiced in York for over 35 years, and the town house The Judges Lodgings, York was built around 1715 as his private residence.[4] He authored several books and attended the Earl of Carlisle at nearby Castle Howard. In the period 1715 to 1730 he kept meteorological records, and notes on his patients.[5] He later published data, one of a number of physicians of the time concerned to understand the relationship of climate and disease.[6] In his essay "An Essay on Contagious Diseases" He presented an early theory of immunity, stating that the dilation of blood vessels during infection by smallpox prevented the disease being able to be caught again.[7]

Publications

Clifton wrote extensively on a range of medical topics, with a particular interest in the early branch of epidemiology (analysis of the distribution, patterns and determinants of health and disease control.)

On his death Wintringham's eldest son was instrumental in compiling two volumes of his father’s Collected Works.

Family

Wintringham was married twice: his first wife Elizabeth was daughter of Richard Nettleton of Earls Heath, Yorkshire. Sir Clifton Wintringham (1710–1794) was their eldest son.[1] His second wife Katherine was daughter of John Liddell (later known as Liddell-Bright), son of Sir Henry Liddell, 3rd Baronet.[8] Clifton Wintringham died on 15 March 1748, and was buried at St Michael-le Belfry, York.

Notes

  1. ^ a b Lane, Joan. "Wintringham, Clifton". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29781. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ "Clifton Wintringham (WNTN705C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ Lane, Joan (2002). "Clifton Wintringham of York (1689-1748): An Early Medical Epidemiologist". Journal of Medical Biography. 10(2): 69–73.
  4. ^ Hallet, Mark (2003). Eighteenth-Century York: Culture, Space and Society. Loughborough: Borthwick Institute of Historical Research. p. 29. ISBN 1904497055.
  5. ^ Andrea A. Rusnock (16 September 2002). Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France. Cambridge University Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-521-80374-8.
  6. ^ Joanna Innes (8 October 2009). Inferior Politics: Social Problems and Social Policies in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Oxford University Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-19-820152-6.
  7. ^ Wintringham, Clifton. The works of the late Clifton Wintringham, : Physician at York, now first collected and published entire: with large additions and emendations from the original manuscripts. By his son C. Wintringham, M. D. F.R.S. Physician to His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, and during the late War Abroad, Physician to His Majesty's Hospitals on the Military Establishment. In Two Volumes. p. 279. OCLC 690150088.
  8. ^ Robert Davies (1868). A Memoir of the York Press: With Notices of Authors, Printers, and Stationers, in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries. Nichols and Sons. p. 142.

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