The students at Edinburgh were privileged to attend lectures by such medical immortals as William Cullen, 15 April 1710 – 5 February 1790, the professor of what is now call internal medicine. After university in 1747 he was awarded Britain's first independent lectureship in Chemistry and was elected President of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. In 1751 he was appointed Professor of the Practice of Medicine and continued to also lecture on chemistry. In 1755 he became Professor of Chemistry and Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.  His major publications included First Lines of the Practice of Physic; Institutions of Medicine (1710) and Synopsis Nosologiae Methodicae (1785).