The New International Encyclopædia/Quain, Richard (Sir)

QUAIN, Sir Richard (1816-98). An English anatomist and physician, born in Mallow, Ireland, a cousin of Richard and Jones Quain. He became fellow in 1857 and vice-president in 1889 of the Royal College of Physicians, and was appointed physician extraordinary to Queen Victoria as well as Lumleian lecturer for 1872 and Harveian orator in 1885. Edinburgh conferred the degree of LL.D. upon Sir Richard in 1889, and the General Medical Council elected him its president in 1891, the same year in which he was created a baronet. He published Diseases of the Muscular Walls of the Heart (1872), and The Healing Art in Its Historic and Prophetic Aspects (1885), and edited the Dictionary of Medicine (1882; 3d ed. 1902).