THOMSON, Anthony Todd, a medical writer and practitioner of considerable celebrity, was born in Edinburgh on the 7th of January 1778, and was educated at the High School there with Brougham, Jeffrey, Cockburn, and other notable men of the day. He studied medicine, and became a member of the once famous Speculative Society in 1798. Having graduated next year, he went to London, and commenced practice in Sloane Street, Chelsea. The first literary work of this singularly industrious individual was his Conspectus Pharmacopoeiae, 1810. In 1811 he published The London Dispensatory, and in 1821 his Lectures on Botany. The Conspectus and the Dispensatory have already gone through very many editions. He was appointed Professor of Materia Medica to the London University in 1828, and to the chair of Medical Jurisprudence in 1832. During the latter year he published his Elements of Materia Medica, and gave his lectures on medical jurisprudence to the Lancet in 1836-37. The health of Dr Thomson began to give way in 1848, and he fell a victim to bronchitis on the 3d of July 1849. One of his last works was his Domestic Management of the Sick.
Thomson, James, Room; and his book on Diseases of the Skin, with which he was occupied at his death, has since been given to the world, accompanied by a memoir of the author by Dr Parkes. The wife of Dr A. T. Thomson has likewise contributed pretty largely to historical biography.