William Cumberland Kruykshenk ( born William Cumberland Cruickshank ; 1745 , Edinburgh - June 27, 1800 , London ) is an English chemist and medic .
He was a member of the Royal Society of London and a professor of surgery and anatomy in London . Author of The Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels of the Human Body. He studied the interaction of water with metals immersed in it and, in particular, was one of the first to use chlorine to purify water.
Apparently, it was William Cumberland Kruykshenku who also owned studies of proteinuria , sometimes attributed to his namesake William Kruykshenku from Woolwich .
After his death, in 1806, envoys of the Russian Empire purchased a collection of Kruykshenk's anatomical preparations for the anatomical office at the St. Petersburg Medical and Surgical Academy [1] .
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- ↑ Anatomical Museum or Cabinet // Encyclopedic Dictionary compiled by Russian scientists and writers. - SPb. , 1862.