Robert Carswell (pathologist)

Sir Robert Carswell (1793–1857) was a Scottish professor of pathology, who described and illustrated many of the clinical details of multiple sclerosis but did not identify it as a separate disease.

While a student he employed by Dr. John Thompson of Edinburgh to make a collection of drawings illustrating morbid anatomy.

He therefore remained in Paris after receiving this commission till 1831, when he had completed a series of two thousand water-colour drawings of diseased structures.

[2] Carswell's major work, published in 1837, was Illustrations of the Elementary Forms of Disease, with coloured plates.

[2] Carswell's pathological drawings were commissioned by University College London and now reside in their Special Collections department.