Andrew Maitland Ramsay

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LLD (1859–1946) was a Scottish eye surgeon and medical author. He was President of the Ophthalmological Society of Great Britain 1923/24 and President of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow.

Life

He was born on 9 November 1859 in Glasgow the son of Andrew Ramsay, a clothier of 66 South Portland Street on the south side of the River Clyde. The family moved to West Lothian in his youth and he was educated at Linlithgow Burgh Grammar School. He then studied Medicine at Glasgow University graduating MB ChM in 1882. He gained practical experience at the Glasgow Western Infirmary and the Glasgow Eye Infirmary. He gained his doctorate (MD) in 1891. In the First World War he served as a Major in the

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at the 3rd General Scottish Hospital. He succeeded Dr Thomas Reid as lecturer in Ophthalmology at Glasgow University and became Professor in 1936. In 1938 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were Percy Herring, David Waterston,

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, and

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. He retired to St Andrews at the onset of the Second World War. He died at home in

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on 20 March 1946 aged 86. He is buried in the east cemetery extension to St Andrews Cathedral churchyard.

Family

In 1906, he married Dr

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(1865-1957).

Publications

*''Injuries to the Eyeball'' (1889) *''Tobacco

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'' (1895) *''Atlas of External Diseases of the Eye'' (1898) *''Eye Injuries and Their Treatment'' (1907) *''

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and Optical Diseases'' (1909) *''A Spectroscopic Test of Colour Vision'' (1909) *''Clinical Ophthalmology for the General Practitioner'' (1920) *''The Eye in General Medicine'' (1929) *''William MacKenzie: An Appreciation'' (1934)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ramsay, Alexander Maitland 1859 births 1946 deaths Medical doctors from Glasgow Scottish ophthalmologists Alumni of the University of Glasgow Academics of the University of Glasgow Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Scottish non-fiction writers