POYSER

Thomas . b. 1790; hon. F.R.C.S. Eng. 1843; leading medical practitioner at Wirksworth, Derby shire 1821 to death; contributed a succe ion of papers on ‘The authors of articles in the Quarterly Review,’ and many other papers to the Gent. Mag., also contributed to Medico chirurgical review and the London journal of medicine. d. Wirksworth 11 June 1860. G.M. ix 319 (1860); Lancet i 634 (1860). Note. —He gave Florence Nightingale her first hints in nursing and medicine, when as a girl she used to attend the sick poor near his home.