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Sorab Kaikhashru Engineer

Fellow

Sorab Kaikhashru Engineer registered to practise in Bombay in 1905 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1920. He served as a Temporary Lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service, as Professor of Pharmacology and Materia Medica at Grant Medical College, and as Physician at Sir JJ Hospital, in Bombay, now Mumbai . His publications include 'Aortic Aneurysm - Recovery' (1925).

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Also recorded as Sorab Kaikhoshur Engineer.

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Andrew Graham Ritchie

Fellow

Andrew Graham Ritchie graduated BSc from the University of Edinburgh in 1907 and completed MB ChB in 1910. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1920. During the First World War he served as a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps attached to No. 8 Mobile Laboratory of the British Expeditionary Force. He worked as Physician at the Cowgate Dispensary and Longmore Hospital and as Clinical Tutor at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. His publications include 'Serum Reaction in Bacillary Dysentery' (1920) and 'Incidence of Infections with Pfeiffer's Bacillus' (1921).

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Jonathan Campbell Meakins

Fellow

Jonathan Campbell Meakins was born in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1882. After graduating from McGill University in 1904 he held posts at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, and was appointed Director of Experimental Medicine at McGill in 1912. He worked in London as a cardiological research associate to Thomas Lewis and served at the Military Heart Hospital during the First World War. From 1919 to 1924 he was Professor of Therapeutics at the University of Edinburgh and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1919. He later served as Deputy Director of Medical Services in the Canadian Army and edited the American Heart Journal. He died on 12 October 1959.

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Patrick Steele

Fellow

Patrick Steele studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating MB ChB in 1904 and MD in 1908. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1920. He served as Medical Superintendent of Roxburgh District Asylum and as Assistant Medical Officer at the Dundee and Edinburgh District Asylums. During the First World War he was Officer in Charge of Crookston War Hospital, Glasgow. His publication includes 'Adrenalin Chloride in the Treatment of Serious Effusions' (1905).

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George Sandison Brock

Fellow

George Sandison Brock was born in Dunnet, Caithness, in 1858. He graduated MD with a Gold Medal from the University of Edinburgh in 1892. He served as Medical Officer at the British Embassy in Rome and during the First World War was Principal Medical Officer at the Villa Trento Field Hospital in Italy. He was appointed MBE in 1919 and elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1920. He died in 1948.

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Arthur Murray Wood

Fellow

Arthur Murray Wood graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1904 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1915. He worked in Edinburgh as Resident Physician at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Resident Surgeon and Resident Physician on the University Wards of the Royal Infirmary, and Resident Medical Officer at Corstorphine Convalescent Home. He was a member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh.
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Alexander Ninian Bruce

Fellow

Alexander Ninian Bruce was the son of Sir Alexander Bruce, lecturer in clinical medicine at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1911 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1915. He gained numerous academic awards, including the Ellis Prize in Physiology, the Senior McKenzie Bursary in Anatomy, and the Pattison Prize in Clinical Surgery. Bruce worked as lecturer in physical neurology at the University of Edinburgh, consultant physician at Bangour Hospital, and clinical tutor at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He died in 1968.
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David Murray Lyon

Fellow

David Murray Lyon was born in 1888, the son of William Malcolm Lyon, veterinary surgeon. He graduated MB from the University of Edinburgh in 1910 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1916. Lyon served as Professor of Therapeutics and Clinical Medicine at the University of Edinburgh and was part of the Royal Infirmary team that pioneered the clinical use of insulin in the treatment of diabetes. He authored several medical textbooks, including 'The Essentials of Medical Treatment' (1940). He served as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1945 to 1947 and died in Edinburgh in 1956.

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Thomas Garnet Stirling Leary

Fellow

Thomas Garnet Stirling Leary was born in 1879. He graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1904 and became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in the same year, later being elected a Fellow in 1916. Leary settled in Melbourne, Australia, where he established a successful medical practice. He authored 'Treatment of Stammering' (1911) and 'Treatment of Diphtheria by Massive Doses of Antitoxin' (1912). He died in Australia in 1954.
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Charles Mackie Begg

Fellow

Charles Mackie Begg was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1879. He graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1905 and returned to New Zealand the following year. Begg was commissioned as Surgeon Captain in the New Zealand Medical Corps and served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during the Gallipoli Campaign and later on the Western Front. He was awarded several honours, including Companion of the Order of the Bath, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1916. After the war he served as Director of Medical Services to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in London. Begg died in London in 1919.