William Cullen

William Cullen (1712–1790) was a Scottish physician and chemist who made significant contributions to medical education and practice in the 18th century.

This site is a digital archive of Cullen's writings and works, making them accessible to researchers, students, and anyone interested in the history of medicine and science. It is the future home of all of Cullen's published works, digitised and searchable, as well as his entire clinical correspondence, also made searchable with aggregate data analytics. The clinical correspondence builds off of the original Cullen Project, and will be a complementary website that might be thought of as Cullen Project 2.0.

It is in a very basic form - almost a placeholder. Cullen's first publication - and his only one in chemistry - has already been transcribed and included, just as an example. Ultimately, each text will be fully transcribed and fully annotated semantically, e.g. all persons, places, illustrations, and works, will be tagged and available for analytics. I have done this already with Cullen's essay on Evaporation by cold (the user can browse the analytics) but it still needs a lot of work. Anyways, much more to come.

For now, additional Cullen scholarship can be found at Functions and Folios.