John Dixon Comrie (28 February 1875 – 2 October 1939) was a Scottish physician, historian of medicine, and the editor of the first edition of Black's Medical Dictionary.[1]
Biography edit
Comrie studied at George Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh, graduating with M.B. degree and first-class honours in 1899. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1906 and took a M.D. degree from Edinburgh in 1911,[2] before positions in the Edinburgh and Glasgow Infirmaries. After that he did post-graduate studies in Berlin and Vienna, worked as clinical assistant at the National Hospital in London, and finally settled at Edinburgh, where he became known as pathologist, physician to the Royal Infirmary, and consulting physician to the Deaconess Hospital and the Princess Margaret Rose Hospital for Crippled Children. During World War I he acted as consulting physician to the North Russian Expeditionary Force, reaching the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.[1]
His father was also John Dixon Comrie (died before October 1939).[3]
In 1929 he was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh[4][5] and in 1932 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian club.[6] In 1933, Comrie authored Diet in Health and Sickness which was positively reviewed in the British Medical Journal as a reliable guide to dietetics for practitioners.[7]
Selected publications edit
- Black's Medical Dictionary (1906 and later editions)
- History of Scottish Medicine to 1860 (London, Baillière, Tindall & Cox, 1927)[8]
- Diet in Health and Sickness (1933)
- Comrie, John D. (1932). History of Scottish medicine. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). London: The Welcome Historical Medical Museum.
- Comrie, John D. (1932). History of Scottish medicine. Vol. 2 (2nd ed.). London: The Welcome Historical Medical Museum.
References edit
- ^ a b Rolleston, J. D. (1939). "Dr. J. D. Comrie". Nature. 144 (3655): 857. Bibcode:1939Natur.144..857R. doi:10.1038/144857a0.
- ^ Comrie, John D. (1911). "Epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis: with an account of twenty-five cases personally observed in the Leith Epidemic of 1907, and an inquiry into the spread of the disease".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Obituary: Dr John Dixon Comrie: Noted Edinburgh Physician". The Glasgow Herald. 3 October 1939. p. 9. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
- ^ Watson Wemyss, Herbert Lindesay (1933). A Record of the Edinburgh Harveian Society. T&A Constable, Edinburgh.
- ^ Minute Books of the Harveian Society. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
- ^ Minute Books of the Aesculapian Club. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
- ^ "Review: Diet In Health And Disease". The British Medical Journal. 1 (3823): 668. 1934.
- ^ Catalogue record for History of Scottish Medicine. Worldcat. OCLC 4747008. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
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