Charles Douglas Fergusson Phillips,F.R.C.S. (1830–1904) was a British medical doctor and author of amateria medica reference work, divided into two parts: organic (plant extracts, etc.) and inorganic substances (salts, acids,spas, etc.).
Charles D. F. Phillips was born in 1830, the fifth son of Captain R. Phillips of the40th Regiment, a veteran of thePeninsular War andWaterloo. He studied medicine at Edinburgh andMarischal College, Aberdeen, where he graduated M.B. in 1852. He commenced practice inManchester. He got his M.D. in 1859. It is believed that he first practiced as ahomoeopath at Manchester, but he left the fold ofSamuel Hahnemann and in 1867 moved to London, where for some years he earned a large professional income.[1]
In 1878 he was disabled by a railway accident, for which, after much litigation, he was awarded damages to the amount of £16,000, said to be the largest sum ever given for injuries received. It was proved that he had made nearly £21,000 the year before the accident, and that for several years previously his professional income had been from £15,000 to £20,000. It took him several years of revalidation, before he was able to resume practice in 1883.[1][2]
Dr. Phillips was for a considerable time Lecturer on Materia Medica and Therapeutics at theWestminster Hospital Medical School, and acted as examiner in the subject at theUniversity of Aberdeen,Glasgow, andEdinburgh. He was the author of several works on pharmacology and therapeutics, some of which achieved considerable popularity. In his later years Dr. Phillips, who was a member of thePhysiological Society, took a great interest in the exposure of the methods of theantivivisectionists.[3] He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and an honorary LL.D. of Edinburgh and Aberdeen.[1]
He retired from active practice about a year before his death, and was appointed Chairman of the Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen Unionist Association, being invited to represent the joint Universities in Parliament, an honor which, however, he declined. He died in November 1904, just after publishing the third edition of hisMateria Medica.[2]
The following works of Phillips were published:[4]
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