James Inglis (physician)

[2] In 1835, he performed a brilliant home operation on gunshot victim, Maria Kennedy, removing the bullet from behind her left frontal bone.

[2] The work documented the epidemiology of goitre, using iodine treatment research Inglis had accumulated in both Scotland and England.

[2] Pursuing a lifelong passion for chemistry and geology, Inglis became the curator for the Halifax Literary & Philosophical Society.

[6] Interested in phrenology, Inglis researched the brain of Eugene Aram, an infamous English murderer.

[7] His sister, St. Clair Ransford, attributed his early death to cardiac arrest, likely due to several bouts of rheumatic fever as a young man.