William Macmichael

William Macmichael FRS (30 November 1783 – 10 January 1839) was an English physician and medical biographer, remembered as the author of The Gold-Headed Cane (1827).

Macmichael spent the years from 1811 to 1817 visiting Bulgaria, Greece, Palestine, Romania, Russia and Turkey after gaining a Radcliffe traveling fellowship.

Macmichael's A New View of the Infection of Scarlet Fever: Illustrated by Remarks on other Contagious Disorders was published in 1822.

Macmichael's The Gold-Headed Cane was published anonymously in 1827 with biographies of the owners of a cane carried by John Radcliffe, Richard Mead, Anthony Askew, William Pitcairn and Matthew Baillie.

Macmichael's The Lives of British Physicians was published anonymously in 1830 including biographies of William Harvey, Thomas Linacre and John Caius.