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Andrew Halliday Douglas
Fellow
Date of Fellowship admission: 7/February/1843
Andrew Halliday Douglas was born in 1819 and passed his professional examinations in 1839 but was not permitted to graduate until he reached the age of twenty-one. He received his MD from the University of Edinburgh on 1 August 1840. By the age of nineteen he was acting as a fellow physician to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Douglas was a founder of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society and served as its Vice-President. His publications include the first statistical report on the Edinburgh epidemic fever of 1843-44 and a paper on the use of Indian hemp in cholera. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 7 February 1843 and died shortly after his eighty-ninth birthday.
Year of medical qualification
1/August/1840
Type of medical qualification
MD
Fellowship
The main qualification issued by the College, awarded regularly since the College’s foundation. This qualification was granted based on demonstrated breadth of experience and did not require an individual to pass a certain examination.