Nathaniel Thomas Brewis
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 3/August/1886
Date of Fellowship admission: 2/August/1887
Robert William Philip
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 3/August/1886
Date of Fellowship admission: 2/August/1887
Robert William Philip was born in Glasgow and educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh. He graduated MB CM with honours from the University of Edinburgh in 1882. Within a few years of graduation his work on the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis gained professional attention, and in 1887 he was awarded a gold medal for his MD thesis, 'An Inquiry into the Actual Cause of Death in Tuberculosis'.
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John Thomson
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 3/May/1887
Date of Fellowship admission: 1/May/1888
Francis William Nicol Haultain
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 3/May/1887
Date of Fellowship admission: 1/May/1888
William Henry Miller
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 3/May/1887
Date of Fellowship admission: 7/August/1888
Thomas William Dewar
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 1/November/1887
Date of Fellowship admission: 7/August/1888
Richard Greene
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 5/May/1885
Date of Fellowship admission: 6/November/1888
Richard Greene studied at the University of Edinburgh and became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1868. He specialised in the care of patients in asylums and worked at several institutions across Britain. He published extensively on asylum management and treatment methods, as well as on general medical subjects. He also served as Surgeon-Captain in the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment. He retired in 1899 and died in Jersey in 1927.
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Alexander Bruce
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 7/February/1882
Date of Fellowship admission: 1/May/1883
Alexander Bruce was born in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, and began his studies in arts at the University of Aberdeen before training in medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He graduated MB CM with first-class honours in 1879 and was awarded a gold medal for his MD in 1887. After working in several Edinburgh hospitals, including service as Physician at the Royal Infirmary, he became Lecturer in the Practice of Medicine at the Edinburgh School of Medicine. He published 'Illustrations of the Mid and Hind Brain' and 'Topographical Atlas of the Spinal Cord', translated Richard Thoma's 'Lehrbuch der Pathologie', and edited the Review of Neurology and Psychology for several years. He died in Edinburgh in June 1911.
Frederick William Dyce Fraser
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 2/May/1882
Date of Fellowship admission: 1/May/1883
Robert Cooper Parke
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 1/February/1876
Date of Fellowship admission: 6/November/1883