The medical institutions of Glasgow : a handbook prepared for the annual meeting of the British Medical Association, held in Glasgow, August, 1888 / compiled and edited at the request of the local committee by James Christie.

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[1889]
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    so famous for their classical attainments; and the present occupant of the Chair of Natural Philosophy, Professor Sir William Thomson, who, by his broad mathematical and phj'-sical generalisations, and, in especial, by his discoveries and inventions in the realm of electricity and submarine telegraphy, has gained an undying name in the annals of science. The names of Cullen and Black have already been referred to in speaking of the rise of the Medical School; and in addition to these should be mentioned those of Dr. John Burns, ■author of a valuable treatise on the Principles of Surgery, and •of many papers on the diseases of women; of Dr. Thomas Thomson, the distinguished chemist who, among other ser- vices to science, introduced the use of symbols in cliemistry, made popular Dalton's atomic theory, and did much to put chemical facts upon a quantitative basis; of Dr. Andrew Buchanan, whose discoveries as to the coagulation of hydro- cele fluid led to our present knowledge of the nature of the coagulation of blood; of the late Dr. Allen Thomson, the distinguished anatomist and comparative embryologist; of Sir Joseph Lister, and of Dr. Gairdner, the present President of the British Medical Association. George Buchanan, the celebrated wit and historian was an alumnus of Glasgow ; and among others may be men- tioned Dr. Matthew Baillie, a leading anatomist and physician of his time, Gibson Lockhart, the son-in-law and biographer of Sir Walter Scott, Campbell, the poet, and the late Arch- bishop Tait. For fuller information regarding the Uni^-ersity, the reader may consult the following books -.-MyMimenta AlmcB Umversitatis Glasguensis, published by the Maitknd Club in 1854; Glasgoiv, Ancient and Modern, edited by J. F. S.