George Leith Roupell

The eldest son of George Boon Roupell of Chartham Park, Sussex, and his wife Frances, daughter of Robert M'Culloch of Charlton, Kent, a master in chancery, he was born on 18 September 1797; the family name was originally Rüpell, from Hesse-Cassel.

He was sent to Charles Burney's school at Greenwich, and, having obtained a Tancred studentship in medicine, entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1815.

[1] Roupell published in 1833 Illustrations of the Effects of Poisons, a series of notes upon drawings made by George McWhinnie, a demonstrator at St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

[1] Roupell published in 1839 A Short Treatise on Typhus Fever, based on observations made in the wards of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, but mainly using extracts from other writers.

He mentioned that 136 students of anatomy at St. Bartholomew's minutely dissected 17 bodies, in which the cause of death was typhus; just two took the disease, and these had been exposed to living patients.