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Regius Professor Of Materia Medica (Glasgow)
The Regius Chair of Medicine and Therapeutics is considered the oldest chair at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. It was formed in 1989 from the merge of the Regius Chairs of the Practice of Medicine (founded in 1637) and of Materia Medica (founded in 1831). The chair has so far had two occupants, Professor John Reid, who was previously Regius Professor of Materia Medica and - since 2010 - Professor Anna Felicja Dominiczak, the first woman to have ever held the post. Regius Professor of the Practice of Medicine The Chair of the Practice of Medicine was founded in 1637 and, after a lapse, revived in 1712. It was endowed by Queen Anne in 1713, becoming the Regius Chair. Practice of Medicine Professors * Robert Mayne MA (1637–1646) Practice of Medicine Regius Professors * John Johnstoun MD (1714) * William Cullen MD (1751) * Robert Hamilton (1756) * Joseph Black MD (1757) * Alexander Stevenson MD (1766) * Thomas Charles Hope MD FRS (1789) * Robert Freer FRSE MA MD (1796) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medicine
Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness. Contemporary medicine applies biomedical sciences, biomedical research, genetics, and medical technology to diagnose, treat, and prevent injury and disease, typically through pharmaceuticals or surgery, but also through therapies as diverse as psychotherapy, external splints and traction, medical devices, biologics, and ionizing radiation, amongst others. Medicine has been practiced since prehistoric times, and for most of this time it was an art (an area of skill and knowledge), frequently having connections to the religious and philosophical beliefs of local culture. For example, a medicine man would apply herbs and say prayers for healing, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Kirkpatrick Monro
Thomas Kirkpatrick Monro (1865 – 10 January 1958) was Regius Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Glasgow. He was director of Glasgow Royal Maternity and Women's Hospital, professor of medicine and dean of the Medical Faculty at St Mungo's College, senior editor of the ''Glasgow Medical Journal'', and governor of the Royal Technical College. He also served as a major in the Royal Army Medical Corps. University of Glasgow. Retrieved 20 November 2018. Monro was also an avid bibliophilia, bibliophile, bibliographer and book collecting, book-collector who amassed an almost complete collection of Sir Thomas Browne and served as the President of the Glasgow Bibliographical Society. The Monro Collection is now held in the special collections of the Glasgow University Library, University of Glasgow L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professorships In Medicine
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors are usually experts in their field and teachers of the highest rank. In most systems of academic ranks, "professor" as an unqualified title refers only to the most senior academic position, sometimes informally known as "full professor". In some countries and institutions, the word "professor" is also used in titles of lower ranks such as associate professor and assistant professor; this is particularly the case in the United States, where the unqualified word is also used colloquially to refer to associate and assistant professors as well. This usage would be considered incorrect among other academic communities. However, the otherwise unqualified title "Professor" designated with a capital letter nearly always refers to a full professor. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professorships At The University Of Glasgow
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors are usually experts in their field and teachers of the highest rank. In most systems of academic ranks, "professor" as an unqualified title refers only to the most senior academic position, sometimes informally known as "full professor". In some countries and institutions, the word "professor" is also used in titles of lower ranks such as associate professor and assistant professor; this is particularly the case in the United States, where the unqualified word is also used colloquially to refer to associate and assistant professors as well. This usage would be considered incorrect among other academic communities. However, the otherwise unqualified title "Professor" designated with a capital letter nearly always refers to a full professor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Dominiczak
Dame Anna Felicja Dominiczak Order of the British Empire, DBE Royal College of Physicians, FRCP Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE American Heart Association, FAHA Academy of Medical Sciences, FMedSci (born 26 August 1954) is a Polish-born British medical researcher, Regius Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics, Glasgow, Regius Professor of Medicine - the first woman to hold this position, and Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. She was a non-executive member of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board. before stepping down and taking a secondment with the UK Government's Test and Trace programme. From 2013 to 2015, Dominiczak was president of the European Society of Hypertension. Her research interests include hypertension, cardiovascular genomics and precision medicine. She has led major research programmes, has over 400 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Reid (pharmacologist)
John Low Reid (born 1943) is a British clinical pharmacologist. Reid graduated in medicine from the University of Oxford, then completed his training in clinical pharmacology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, where he was subsequently a senior lecturer and reader. He also undertook a Medical Research Council travelling fellowship to the United States' National Institutes of Health. He became Regius professor of materia medica and therapeutics at the University of Glasgow in 1978, changing to being Regius chair of medicine and head of the department of medicine and therapeutics, in 1989. He has served as president of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland; of the British Society of Hypertension; and of European Society of Hypertension. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Charteris
Matthew Charteris MD FRSE LRCSE (1840 – July 1897). He was a Scottish physician and academic who was the Regius Professor of Materia Medica at the University of Glasgow. He was also the author of the standard medical textbook the ''Practice of Medicine''. He was an advocate of the influence of good climate upon health. Early life and education Charteris was born in Newton Wamphray in Dumfriesshire in 1840 the son of John Charteris the local schoolmaster and his wife, Jean (Jane) Hamilton, daughter of Archibald Hamilton a farmer at Broomhills. He was educated by his father at Wamphray Parish School before winning a place at the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. He graduated with an Doctor of Medicine in 1863. Career After some further study in foreign schools, he established a medical practice in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Airdrie before moving to Glasgow. From 1874 he worked at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and from 1876 was a professor of medicine at the Andersonian I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Black Cowan
John Black Cowan (1828-1896) was Regius Professor of Materia Medica at the University of Glasgow. References External links Academics of the University of Glasgow 1828 births 1896 deaths {{Scotland-med-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William IV Of The United Kingdom
William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837. The third son of George III, William succeeded his elder brother George IV, becoming the last king and penultimate monarch of Britain's House of Hanover. William served in the Royal Navy in his youth, spending time in North America and the Caribbean, and was later nicknamed the "Sailor King". In 1789, he was created Duke of Clarence and St Andrews. In 1827, he was appointed Britain's first Lord High Admiral since 1709. As his two elder brothers died without leaving legitimate issue, he inherited the throne when he was 64 years old. His reign saw several reforms: the Poor Law was updated, child labour restricted, slavery abolished in nearly all of the British Empire, and the electoral system refashioned by the Reform Acts of 1832. Although William did not engage in politics as m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professor Sir Abraham Goldberg
Sir Abraham Goldberg (7 December 1923 – 1 September 2007) was a British physician who was a Regius Professor of the Practice of Medicine at the University of Glasgow. He was educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh. Early life Sir Abraham (Abe) Goldberg was born in Edinburgh on 7 December 1923, the youngest of five children of Jewish immigrant parents from Lithuania and Ukraine. Career After junior hospital medical posts and national service with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt, Goldberg obtained a Nuffield fellowship in the Department of Chemical Pathology at University College Hospital, London. Here he worked with the Professor of Chemical Pathology, Claude Rimmington, in learning the techniques which were to underpin his future research studies on the blood pigment haem and its relation to the disease porphyria. After a year and a half spent on an Eli Lilly travelling fellowship in Salt Lake City with the haematologist Max Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Malcolm Wilson
Graham Malcolm Wilson (1917–1977) was a Scottish physician, professor of medicine, and pioneer of clinical pharmacology. Life He was born in Edinburgh the son of Dr Malcolm Wilson, a lecturer in mycology at the University of Edinburgh. After education at Edinburgh Academy from 1923 to 1934, he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MB ChB in 1940, a BSc in pathology in 1947, his MD in 1950, and a DSc in 1964. After graduation in 1940 he was appointed house surgeon and house physician at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. He qualified MRCPE in 1942. During the Second World War he served in the RAF Medical Services from 1941 to 1946, being sent to North Africa in 1943. In 1946 he worked at the University of Edinburgh under A. Murray Drennan, professor of pathology. Wilson was from 1947 to 1949 an assistant physician under George White Pickering at the medical unit of St Mary's Hospital. At the University of Sheffield he was from 1950 to 1951 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
