Douglas Guthrie

Douglas James Guthrie FRSE FRSC FRSM FRCP FRSCE FRCPE FSA DLitt (8 Sept. 1885 - 8 June 1975) was a Scottish medical doctor, otolaryngologist and historian of medicine.

Life

He was born in Dysart in Fife, the son of Rev William Guthrie, minister of the United Free Church. He was educated at Kirkcaldy High School and the Royal High School, Edinburgh. He then studied Medicine at Edinburgh University, graduating MB ChB in 1907. He won the McCosh Travelling Scholarship and undertook further studies in Berlin, Hamburg, Jena, Vienna and Paris. He was given his doctorate in 1909.[1]

In the First World War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps but remained in Britain as commander of a military hospital affiliated to the Royal Flying Corps. He then worked as a GP in Lanark before returning to Edinburgh to work at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children, where he became an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist. At the same time he lectured on the History of Medicine at Edinburgh University.[2]

In 1930 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Thomas James Jehu, James Hartley Ashworth, Ralph Allan Sampson and Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer. He served as the Society's Curator from 1949 to 1959 and as Vice President from 1959 to 1962.

In 1948 he founded the British Society of the History of Medicine and served as its first President.[3][4]

He died in Edinburgh on 8 June 1975.

Publications

Family

He was married twice: firstly to Helen Purdie, and following her death in 1950 in 1953 he married Margaret Jean Guthrie.

References

  1. ↑ Journal of Medical History 8 June 1975
  2. ↑ BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  3. ↑ ‘GUTHRIE, Douglas James’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 12 Sept 2013
  4. ↑ Dr Douglas Guthrie A distinguished medical historian (Obituaries) The Times Tuesday, Jun 10, 1975; pg. 18; Issue 59418; col F


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