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Douglas Guthrie


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

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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 awarded his doctorate in 1909 and FRCSEd in 1913.

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.

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.

When he retired from clinical work in 1945, he was appointed as a lecturer in the History of Medicine at Edinburgh University, a post that had been previously held by his friend John Comrie.

In 1948 he was instrumental in the foundation of the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine and served as its first President and in 1965 he was involved in the founding of the British Society for the History of Medicine and was also its first President

He died in Edinburgh on 8 June 1975.

Publications

  • The Cure of Stammering, Stuttering and Other Speech Disorders, (1956)
  • A History of Medicine, Thomas Nelson, Edinburgh, (1945)
  • Lord Lister, His Life and Doctrine, (1949)
  • From Witchcraft to Sepsis- A study in Antithesis, University of Kansas Press, (1955)
  • A History of Medicine, (New and Revised Edition with Supplement), Thomas Nelson, Edinburgh, (1958)
  • Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children 1860-1960, Edinburgh, (1960)
  • Janus in the Doorway, Pitman, London, (1963)
  • Extramural Education in Edinburgh, E and S Livingstone, Edinburgh, (1965)

    • Family

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

    References

    Douglas Guthrie Wikipedia
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