Christopher Robert Pemberton

Christopher Robert Pemberton (1765, Trumpington, Cambridgeshire – 31 July 1822, Fredville, Kent) was an English physician. He was the Gulstonian Lecturer in 1797 and the Harveian Orator in 1806. Education and career After education at Bury St Edmunds School, he matriculated in 1784 at Caius College, Cambridge. There he graduated with an M.B. in 1789, was made a Fellow in 1793, and graduated with an M.D. in 1794. On the 25th of June 1796 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. In 1797 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. On the 25th of April 1800, Pemberton was appointed physician to St George's Hospital. He resigned that office in 1808 (due to his severe neuralgia). In 1806 he was appointed physician-extraordinary to the Prince of Wales and to the Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale and, afterward, to His Majesty King George III. Pemberton was "remarkable for the urbanity of his manners". In 1806 he published A Practical Treatise on Various Diseases of the Abdominal Viscera. Several later editions were published. Carl Adolph Moritz Bresler translated the 4th edition into German. Pemberton's book is dedicated to Matthew Baillie, M.D., Charles Dalston Nevinson, M.D., Pelham Warren, M.D., Astley Cooper, Esq., and Benjamin Collins Brodie, Esq. The books's eleven chapters deal with peritonæum, liver, gall bladder, pancreas, spleen, kidneys, stomach, intestines, enteritis, "inflammation of the mucous membrane of the intestines", and "disease of the mesenteric glands". The book was studied by Charles Darwin