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William Cumberland
Cruikshank (1745,
Edinburgh —
June 27,
1800) was a
British chemist and
anatomist, an author of the
"The Anatomy of the Absorbing
Vessels of the Human Body". He
used
chlorine to purify
water, in
1797 first reported the
property of some
urines to coagulate when
heated and identified
carbon monoxide as a compound
containing carbon and
oxygen in 1800. Cruikshank was
also an author of the earliest
chemical work on
strontium (1787).
