Donald McIntyre FRSE MBE MID (1891-1954) was a 20th-century Scottish gynecologist and medical author.
McIntyre was born in Greenock on 29 July 1891 the son of Donald McIntyre.
He studied medicine at Glasgow University graduating MB ChB in 1914. At the outbreak of the First World War he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and served for the duration of the war, based mainly in the Dardanelles and East Africa. He was Mentioned in Dispatches and was granted a military MBE after the war, also being retired on the rank of honorary Major. [1]
After the war he took a Diploma at Trinity College Dublin. In 1920 he began working as a Pathologist for the Royal Samaritan Hospital for Women, in Glasgow. He was given his doctorate (MD) in 1926, also being awarded the Bellahouston Gold Medal for his thesis. He stayed at the Royal Samaritan Hospital seven years, rising to be Senior Surgeon. He held multiple medical positions in Glasgow Hospitals and was both a lecturer and examiner at Glasgow University. In 1927 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Thomas Hastie Bryce, Diarmid Noel Paton, Sir John Graham Kerr, and Ralph Stockman. [2]
He died on 20 October 1954 in a Glasgow nursing home.
Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish obstetrician and a significant figure in the history of medicine. He was the first physician to demonstrate the anaesthetic properties of chloroform on humans and helped to popularise its use in medicine.
Ian Donald was an English physician who pioneered the diagnostic use of ultrasound in obstetrics, enabling the visual discovery of abnormalities during pregnancy. Donald was born in Cornwall, England, to a Scottish family of physicians. He was educated in Scotland and South Africa before studying medicine at the University of London in 1930, and became the third generation of doctors in his family. At the start of World War II, Donald was drafted into the Royal Air Force as a medical officer, where he developed an interest in radar and sonar. In 1952, at St Thomas' Hospital, he used what he learned in the RAF to build a respirator for newborn babies with respiratory problems.
Sir Dugald Baird FRCOG was a British medical doctor and a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology. Baird was most notable and influential in calling for the liberalising of abortion. In his delivery of the Sandoz lecture in November 1961, titled the Fifth Freedom, he advocated for freedom from the tyranny of fertility.
Dame Anne Louise McIlroy, known as Louise McIlroy, was a distinguished and honoured Irish-born British physician, specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology. She was both the first woman to be awarded a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree and to register as a research student at the University of Glasgow. She was also the first woman medical professor in the United Kingdom.
Samuel James Cameron was Regius Professor of Midwifery at the University of Glasgow from 1934 until 1942. The son of Caesarean Section pioneer Prof Murdoch Cameron, S.J. Cameron was a foundation Fellow of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1929, and for many years a member of the Gynaecological Visiting Society. A lifelong champion of the reputation of the founder of professional midwifery in the British isles, William Smellie, Cameron both named a maternity hospital at Lanark, Scotland, after him and saved Smellie's library from permanent loss.
John Martin Munro Kerr was Regius Professor of Midwifery at the University of Glasgow from 1927 to 1934. A scholar and surgeon of international acclaim he won both the Katherine Bishop Harman Prize in 1934 for his book Maternal Mortality and Morbidity (1933) and was the first recipient of the Blair Bell Medal for obstetrics and gynaecology.
Leonard Colebrook FRS was an English physician and bacteriologist.
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James Haig Ferguson LLD FRSE FRCPE FRCSEd was a prominent Scottish obstetrician and gynaecologist. He served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 1929 to 1931 and was president of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society. He chaired the Central Midwives Board of Scotland and was manager of Donaldson's School for the Deaf. In 1929 he was a founder member of the British College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
Sir Alexander Russell Simpson FRCPE FRSE LLD was a Scottish physician and Professor of Midwifery at the University of Edinburgh. He invented the axis-traction forceps also known as the obstetrics forceps which assisted in childbirth and reducing pain.
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