Sorab Kaikhashru Engineer
Fellow
Date of Fellowship admission: 20 July 1920
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).
Other Information
Also recorded as Sorab Kaikhoshur Engineer.
Andrew Graham Ritchie
Fellow
Date of Fellowship admission: 4 May 1920
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).
Jonathan Campbell Meakins
Fellow
Date of Fellowship admission: 16 December 1919
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.
Patrick Steele
Fellow
Date of Fellowship admission: 20 July 1920
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).
George Sandison Brock
Fellow
Date of Fellowship admission: 2 December 1920
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.
Arthur Murray Wood
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 2/May/1911
Date of Fellowship admission: 2/February/1915
Alexander Ninian Bruce
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 7/May/1912
Date of Fellowship admission: 20/July/1915
David Murray Lyon
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 5/November/1912
Date of Fellowship admission: 1/February/1916
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.
Thomas Garnet Stirling Leary
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 19/July/1904
Date of Fellowship admission: 2/May/1916
Charles Mackie Begg
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 7/November/1905
Date of Fellowship admission: 2/May/1916