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MD, D.Litt., FRCSEd., FRCPEdin., FRSE

Otolaryngologist and Medical Historian

First President of the Society, 1948-51
Honorary President, 1958

Moving Spirit in the Foundation of the Society

Lecturer in History of Medicine, University of Edinburgh, 1945-56

President, Section of History of Medicine, Royal Society of Medicine, 1956

Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1967

Founder Memeber of the British Society of the History of Medicine

President, British Society for the History of Medicine, 1965

Author of important works in otolaryngology and history of medicine