| Dates: | 1826 - 1890 | | Active: | UK |
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In some circles, Dr. Duncan is best known for being the first person rendered insensible by chloroform, a distinction he had the opportunity to gain as the private assistant to the pioneering Scottish obstetrician Sir James Young Simpson. Born in Aberdeen, Duncan studied medicine in Edinburgh and Paris and earned distinction in both scientific theory and actual practice. With this brace of skills, it is not surprising that he took up photography. A member of the Edinburgh Photographic Exchange Club, Duncan contributed four waxed-paper photographic landscapes to the 1858 exhibition of the Photographic Society of Scotland.
Roger Taylor & Larry J. Schaaf Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2007)
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Date last updated: 4 Nov 2012.
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