{{Short description|British physician and antiquary (1655–1721)}} {{about||the English politician|William Musgrave (MP)|the American football coach|Bill Musgrave}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}} {{Use British English|date=September 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = William Musgrave | image = WilliamMusgrave.jpg | alt = | caption = William Musgrave, by Thomas Hawker (1640-1725), assistant<ref> {{citation|title=British paintings of the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries|series=The Collections of the National Gallery of Art, Systematic Catalogue |first= John T.|last= Hayes|year= 1992|publisher=Oxford University Press|pages=160–161|isbn=0-521-41066-5}}</ref> to the court painter Sir Peter Lely | birth_name = | birth_date = 1655<!-- {{Birth date and age|df=yes|YYYY|MM|DD}} or {{Birth-date and age|Month DD, YYYY}} --> | birth_place = | death_date = 1721<!-- {{Death date and age|df=yes|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} or {{Death-date and age|df=yes|Month DD, YYYY|Month DD, YYYY}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | other_names = | alma_mater = Winchester College;<br> New College, Oxford, | occupation = Physician | known_for = Secretary to the Royal Society }}
'''William Musgrave''' ({{langx|la|Guilhelmus Musgrave}};<!--sic--> 1655–1721) was a British physician and antiquary.
==Life== He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he was a fellow from 1677 to 1692. In 1680 he spent a brief period at the University of Leiden.
He was elected to the Royal Society in 1684, for his work in natural philosophy and medicine. During 1685 he acted as secretary to the society and edited the ''Philosophical Transactions'' nos. 167 to 178. He was a member of the Philosophical Society of Oxford,<ref> {{citation|first=William|last=Molyneux|year=1684|volume=14|title=A Letter from the Learned and Ingenious Mr. Will. Molyneux Secretary to the Society of Dublin, to Will. Musgrave L. L. B. Fellow of New Colledge, and Secretary to the Philosophical Society of Oxford, for Advancement of Natural Knowledge; Concerning Lough Neagh in Ireland, and Its Petrifying Qualitys|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London |series=Series I|pages= 552–554 |bibcode=1684RSPT...14..552M |jstor=102046}}</ref><ref>{{citation|first=William|last=Musgrave|year=1684|volume=14|title=An Abstract of a Journal of the Philosophical Society of Oxford, being an Account of Some Experiments Relating to Digestion Read before That Society, and of a Large Bed of Glands Observ'd in the Stomach of a Jack|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London |series=Series I|pages= 699–701|bibcode=1684RSPT...14..699. |jstor=102080}}</ref> where he practised medicine and was awarded an M.D. on 6 July 1689. In 1692 he was elected to the Royal College of Physicians in London. He later settled in Exeter, where he practised until his death.<ref>[http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/rs/pilot/ref/biographies.html Biographical sketch] from the Catalogue of the Early Letters of the Royal Society.</ref><ref name=ODNB>Alick Cameron, ‘Musgrave, William (1655–1721)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004</ref>
His writings on medical matters included lacteals, palsy, and respiration. His important medical works concerned arthritis and its effects. His publication ''De arthritide symptomatica'' (1703; 2nd edn, 1715) included the first scientific description of ‘Devonshire colic’ (later referred to by John Huxham and George Baker).<ref name=ODNB/> His other writings included ''Antiquitates Britanno-Belgicae'' a study of Roman Hampshire, Wiltshire and Somerset – areas previously inhabited by the Belgae. George I presented Musgrave with a diamond ring for this work.<ref name=ODNB/>
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==Sources== *{{citation|last=Cameron|first=A.|title=A west country polymath: William Musgrave MD FRS FRCP, of Exeter (1655-1721)|journal=J Med Biogr|year=1998| volume=8|issue=3|pages=166–170|doi=10.1177/096777209800600310|pmid=11620440|s2cid=40021661}} *{{cite DNB|wstitle=Musgrave, William |first=William Prideaux |last=Courtney |volume=38}}
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