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Charles David Badham

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176:, published in 1847. He seems to have become interested in the subject as a result of visiting fungus markets in Italy. Eating wild fungi was considered an eccentric and dangerous pastime in England at the time and the book attracted some popular interest, if only as a curiosity. The original edition contained colour plates by the noted mycological illustrator 242:. This consists of anecdotes, classical allusions, and odd facts about fish, fishing, and fish-eating — the "Author's purport" being "to treat of fish icthyophagously, not icthyologically, and to give, not fish science, but fish tattle". The original 370: 160:
and published a pamphlet whilst in France claiming that insects lacked intelligence or senses, being governed entirely by blind instinct. He continued the same theme in a later book called
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David Badham published a number of medical papers during his early career, but thereafter wrote widely on a range of subjects, mainly natural history, and was a regular contributor to
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David Badham seems to have started his medical career in Scotland, where he achieved some notoriety for setting a patient's irregular heartbeat to music. In 1833, a
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MP. He returned to England in 1845 and, through poor health, relinquished medicine and took holy orders. Badham was appointed
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travelling fellowship allowed Badham to practise medicine in France and Italy, for some of the time as personal physician to
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published in 1845. Contemporary reviews suggest that British entomologists thought little of his thesis.
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on fishing. Badham's book treats everything from fish salves for hair growth to mackerels in heraldry.
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Douglas, J.W. (1846). Remarks occasioned py the publication of a work called 'Insect Life'.
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The question concerning the sensibility, intelligence, and instinctive actions of insects
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where he graduated BA in 1826. Following his father's career in medicine, he went on to
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http://www.hoocher.com/Ingres/Ingres_Mrs__Charles_Badham_born_Margaret_Campbell.jpg
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The Rev. Dr Badham was more successful as a mycologist, writing a well-received
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Badham's last major work was a compilation of articles first published in
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Reflections on the nature of inflammation, and its alleged consequences
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The Home friend, a weekly miscellany of amusement and instruction
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are named after him, as are five species of fungi, including the
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His fungal collections are in the mycological herbarium of the
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who became his friend. Subsequently he was appointed curate of
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Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London
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Badham became interested in fungi generally, as well as
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Charles David (or simply David) Badham was educated at
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English writer, physician, entomologist, and mycologist
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Prose halieutics, or ancient and modern fish tattle
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Prose halieutics, or ancient and modern fish tattle
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Prose halieutics, or ancient and modern fish tattle
273:Badham, D. (1839). Two cases of cerebral disease. 484:Anon. (1852). A few words on the mushroom tribe. 403:Anon. (1857). David Charles Badham. In memoriam. 88:in 1830 and MD in 1833, becoming a Fellow of the 471:P.L. (1859). Confessions of a toadstool eater. 289:A treatise on the esculent funguses of England 124:in Suffolk, where he remained till his death. 601:People educated at Westminster School, London 8: 174:Treatise on the esculent funguses of England 47:Regius Professor of the Practice of Medicine 616:Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians 515:. Stourbridge: British Mycological Society 433:. London: Smith, Elder & Co. (p. 298) 57:. His younger brother, confusingly called 513:Brief biographies of British mycologists 458:Anon. (1847). Bibliographical notices. 350: 298:. 552 pp. London: Parker & Son 460:Annals and Magazine of Natural History 399: 397: 395: 606:Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge 596:19th-century English Anglican priests 7: 576:19th-century English medical doctors 41:Charles David Badham was the son of 611:Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford 263:. 67 pp. Glasgow: University Press 156:Badham was an early member of the 127:He married Anna Hume, daughter of 14: 416:Anon. (1831) Pathological waltz. 305:. 37 pp. Ipswich: J. Haddock 291:. 138 pp. London: Reeve Bros 529:https://books.google.co.uk/books 435:https://books.google.co.uk/books 385:erroneously gives his school as 541:International Plant Names Index 284:. 171 pp. Glasgow: W. Blackwood 158:Société entomologique de France 499:"Index Fungorum - Search Page" 246:was a classical Greek poem by 1: 431:The life of James Deacon Hume 418:The Medico-chirurgical Review 581:19th-century British writers 371:"Badham, David (BDHN822CD)" 375:A Cambridge Alumni Database 90:Royal College of Physicians 78:Emmanuel College, Cambridge 632: 377:. University of Cambridge. 220:Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 238:, with the strange title 511:Ainsworth, G.C. (1996). 270:. 54 pp. Paris: A. Belin 195:. The myxomycete genera 96:Medicine and holy orders 82:Pembroke College, Oxford 37:Background and education 303:An August at Felixstowe 275:London Medical Gazette 213:Leucocoprinus badhamii 106:Thomas Barrett-Leonard 591:British entomologists 524:Badham, C.D. (1854). 301:Badham, C.D. (1857). 294:Badham, C.D. (1854). 287:Badham, C.D. (1847). 280:Badham, C.D. (1845). 51:University of Glasgow 141:Blackwood's Magazine 76:and subsequently at 20:Charles David Badham 586:British mycologists 429:Badham, C. (1859). 340:List of mycologists 312:author abbreviation 266:Badham, D. (1837). 259:Badham, D. 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Index

FRCP
entomologist
mycologist
Charles Badham
Regius Professor of the Practice of Medicine
University of Glasgow
Ingres
Charles Badham
vicar
Sudbury
Westminster
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Pembroke College, Oxford
MB
Royal College of Physicians
Radcliffe
Thomas Barrett-Leonard
curate
Wymondham
Bishop Stanley
East Bergholt
James Deacon Hume
Board of Trade
Blackwood's Magazine
Société entomologique de France
Anna Maria Hussey
Frederick Currey
myxomycetes
M.J. Berkeley
Badhamia

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