page_title: Patrick Newbigging
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Patrick Newbigging / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: 29 Heriot Row, Edinburgh
context_page_description: Patrick Small Keir Newbigging FRSE FRSSA FRCSE was a Scottish surgeon and general practitioner. He was President of the Royal Medical Society and of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts. Together with his father, Sir William Newbigging he formed one of the few father-son pairs of former Presidents of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. His observations on the origin of the heart sounds and of the apex beat of the heart made a significant contribution to the debate.
context_section_description: He was born at 18 St Andrew Square in Edinburgh's New Town the son of Lilias Steuart and her husband, the Edinburgh surgeon Sir William Newbigging.
  He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. While a student he joined the Royal Medical Society and gave a dissertation to the Society in 1833 on the origin of heart sounds and pulsations. In this he suggested that the apex beat was produced by ventricular systole and not diastole as had been suggested by William Stokes and Dominic Corrigan and was the prevalent view at the time. He received his doctorate (MD), in 1834, writing his thesis on the same topic, under the title On the causes of the impulse and sounds of the heart. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in the same year and was elected President of the Royal Medical Society in 1835.
caption: 29 Heriot Row, Edinburgh
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