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Ian George Wilson Hill
Sir Ian George Wilson Hill (7 September 1904 – 5 May 1982) was a Scottish physician. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1963 to 1966 and the official Physician to the Queen in Scotland. He was Chairman of the British Cardiac Society. Life Hill was born in Shotts, Lanarkshire, the son of Jean Robertson Malcolm and Andrew Wilson Hill, a banker. His early years were spent in South Uist where he acquired a love of nature and fly-fishing in particular. His family then moved to Edinburgh where he was educated at George Watson's College. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh under Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer and William Thomas Ritchie, graduating MB ChB with honours in 1928, and winning the Ettles Scholarship for that year, plus a Rockefeller Travelling Scholarship. With the latter he travelled to Ann Arbor, Michigan to work with the leading electrocardiologist Frank N. Wilson. He then spent time in Vienna working with Karl Wenckeb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian George Wilson Hill
Sir Ian George Wilson Hill (7 September 1904 – 5 May 1982) was a Scottish physician. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1963 to 1966 and the official Physician to the Queen in Scotland. He was Chairman of the British Cardiac Society. Life Hill was born in Shotts, Lanarkshire, the son of Jean Robertson Malcolm and Andrew Wilson Hill, a banker. His early years were spent in South Uist where he acquired a love of nature and fly-fishing in particular. His family then moved to Edinburgh where he was educated at George Watson's College. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh under Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer and William Thomas Ritchie, graduating MB ChB with honours in 1928, and winning the Ettles Scholarship for that year, plus a Rockefeller Travelling Scholarship. With the latter he travelled to Ann Arbor, Michigan to work with the leading electrocardiologist Frank N. Wilson. He then spent time in Vienna working with Karl Wenckeb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Territorial Army (United Kingdom)
The Army Reserve is the active-duty volunteer reserve force of the British Army. It is separate from the Regular Reserve whose members are ex-Regular personnel who retain a statutory liability for service. The Army Reserve was known as the Territorial Force from 1908 to 1921, the Territorial Army (TA) from 1921 to 1967, the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve (TAVR) from 1967 to 1979, and again the Territorial Army (TA) from 1979 to 2014. The Army Reserve was created as the Territorial Force in 1908 by the Secretary of State for War, Richard Haldane, when the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 combined the previously civilian-administered Volunteer Force, with the mounted Yeomanry (at the same time the Militia was renamed the Special Reserve). Haldane planned a volunteer "Territorial Force", to provide a second line for the six divisions of the Expeditionary Force which he was establishing as the centerpiece of the Regular Army. The Territorial Force was to be comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aesculapian Club
The Aesculapian Club of Edinburgh is one of the oldest medical dining clubs in the world. It was founded in April 1773 by Dr. Andrew Duncan. Membership of the Club is limited to 11 Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and 11 Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. 'Extraordinary Membership' is given to members aged over 70 years. The Club was established during the Scottish Enlightenment to encourage convivial relations between Fellows of the two Colleges and to stimulate intellectual discussion. The Club dinners are held in the New Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on the 2nd Friday of March and October each year. The principal guest at each dinner is invited to give a short talk on a non-medical subject and this is followed by a round-table discussion. Founding members There were 10 founding members of the Club who attended the first dinner on 2nd April 1773. The minutes of that meeting record that 'The Aesculapian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Wedderburn
Sir Ernest MacLagan Wedderburn (3 February 1884 – 3 June 1958) was a Scottish lawyer, and a significant figure both in the civic life of Edinburgh and in the legal establishment. He held the posts of Professor of Conveyancing in the University of Edinburgh (1922–35), Deputy Keeper of the Signet (1935–54), and Chairman of the General Council of Solicitors (1936–49), the forerunner to the Law Society of Scotland, and chaired the latter 1949/50. He was also an enthusiastic amateur scientist, and first Treasurer then Vice President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Early life Wedderburn was born in Forfar, Forfarshire in 1884, the son of Anne Oglivie and her husband (and cousin), Dr Alexander Stormonth MacLagan Wedderburn of Pearsie. He was one of 14 children, and the younger brother of Joseph Wedderburn, who became Professor of Mathematics at Princeton and conceive the Wedderburn–Etherington number and Artin–Wedderburn theorem. He was distantly related, through h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Frederick Harvey
Lieutenant-Colonel William Frederick Harvey CIE FRCPE FRSE (1873-11 September 1948) was a Scottish expert on public health, serving for many years improving conditions in India. Life Harvey, the son of Robert Harvey, attended Dollar Academy then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating MA in 1893 and MB in 1897. In 1905/6 he received a Diploma in Public Health. He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries. In 1907 he was posted to Sierra Leone to work on a cure for trypanosomiasis. From 1908 he was stationed in India with the Royal Army Medical Corps. As part of the Indian Medical Service he was based at Kasauli. In the First World War he was initially based in Bombay, on training duties, then served with the Sanitary Division of the ADMS in Mesopotamia and was Mentioned in Dispatches. He was the joint creator, with Robert J. Blackham, of the "Harvey-Blackham" pattern used on St John’s Amb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Guthrie
Douglas James Guthrie FRSE FRCS FRCP FRCSEd FRCPE (8 September 1885 – 8 June 1975) was a Scottish medical doctor, otolaryngologist and historian of medicine. After graduating in Medicine from Edinburgh University, he pursued postgraduate studies into diseases of ear, nose and throat at leading European clinics. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War and had a particular interest in disorders of speech in children, ultimately establishing specialised clinics. In 1936, with no definitive teaching Hospital appointment, he began to research and write what would prove to be his magnum opus '' A History of Medicine'' and became lecturer in the History of Medicine at Edinburgh. In 1948 Guthrie brought about the foundation of the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine and served as its first President. Subsequently, he became president of the British Society for the History of Medicine and the History of Medicine Society at the Royal Society of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Murray Lyon
David Malcolm Murray Lyon FRSE DPH (1888-1956) was an English physician and medical author. He was president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1945–47, and was editor of the Edinburgh Medical Journal. Life He was born in Wooler in Northumberland on 12 September 1888. He was the son of Ebinizer (sic) Campbell and William Malcolm Lyon, a veterinary surgeon. He was educated at George Watson's College then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating MB ChB in 1910. In the First World War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps attached to the Cavalry Field Ambulance and saw action in both Rouen and Mons. After the war he became Assistant physician at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary under Jonathan Meakins, jointly working on insulin research, and being joined by Charles George Lambie from 1922. He received his doctorate ( MD) in 1920 with his thesis ''The viscosity of the blood'' and a DSc in 1924 with his thesis ''Some observations on the action o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Society Of Edinburgh
The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established in 1783. , there are around 1,800 Fellows. The Society covers a broader selection of fields than the Royal Society of London, including literature and history. Fellowship includes people from a wide range of disciplines – science & technology, arts, humanities, medicine, social science, business, and public service. History At the start of the 18th century, Edinburgh's intellectual climate fostered many clubs and societies (see Scottish Enlightenment). Though there were several that treated the arts, sciences and medicine, the most prestigious was the Society for the Improvement of Medical Knowledge, commonly referred to as the Medical Society of Edinburgh, co-founded by the mathematician Colin Maclaurin in 1731. Maclaurin was unhappy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Dundee
The University of Dundee; . Abbreviated as ''Dund.'' for post-nominals. is a public university, public research university based in Dundee, Scotland. It was founded as a University college#United Kingdom, university college in 1881 with a donation from the prominent Baxter family of History of Dundee#Industrial revolution, textile manufacturers. The institution was, for most of its early existence, a Collegiate university, constituent college of the University of St Andrews alongside United College, St Andrews, United College and St Mary's College, St Andrews, St Mary's College located in the town of St Andrews itself. Following significant expansion, the University of Dundee gained independent university status by royal charter in 1967 while retaining elements of its ancient university, ancient heritage and ancient university governance in Scotland, governance structure. The main campus of the university is located in Dundee's West End, Dundee, West End, which contains many of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Patrick
Adam; el, Ἀδάμ, Adám; la, Adam is the name given in Book of Genesis, Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as "mankind". tells of God's creation of the world and its creatures, including ''adam'', meaning humankind; in God forms "Adam", this time meaning a single male human, out of "the dust of the ground", places him in the Garden of Eden, and forms a woman, Eve, as his helpmate; in Adam and Eve eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge and God condemns Adam to labour on the earth for his food and to return to it on his death; deals with the birth of Adam's sons, and lists his descendants from Seth to Noah. The Genesis creation myth was adopted by both Christianity and Islam, and the name of Adam accordingly appears in the Christian scriptures and in the Quran. He also features in subsequent folkloric and mystical elaborations i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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