This is a list of presidents of the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine (SSHM).
| Years | Name | Comments | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | Douglas Guthrie (1885–1975) | Otolaryngologist and historian of medicine whose book A History of Medicine published in 1945, came to international attention. In 1948 Guthrie brought about the foundation of the SSHM and served as its first president. Subsequently, he became president of the British Society for the History of Medicine and the History of Medicine Society at the Royal Society of Medicine. [1] [2] | |
| 1951 | John Ritchie (1882–1959) | Friend of Guthrie, he co-founded the SSHM. [2] [3] | |
| 1954 | Archibald Lamont Goodall (1915–1963) | Surgeon and honorary librarian at the University of Glasgow, and co-founder of the SSHM. [2] [4] | |
| 1957 | William Smith Mitchell (d 1982) | Mitchell became librarian at King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne, and then at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1955, he authored a History of Scottish Bookbinding, 1432-1650. [2] | |
| 1960 | Adam Patrick (1883–1970) | Patrick was lecturer on the history of medicine at St. Andrews University in 1950. [2] [5] |
| Years | Name | Comments | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Charles Henry Kemball (1889–1964) [2] | ||
| 1964 | William Alister Alexander (1890–1976) [2] | ||
| 1966 | Norman McOmish Dott, CBE (1897–1973) | The first holder of the Chair of Neurological Surgery at the University of Edinburgh. [6] | |
| 1968 | Meredith Henry Armstrong Davison, MBE (1911–1970) [2] | ||
| 1971 | Thomas Robert Rushton Todd (1895–1975) [2] | ||
| 1974 | Charles Gray Drummond (d 1985) [2] | ||
| 1977 | Haldane Philp Tait (1911–1990) [2] | Tait was the Principal Medical Officer for the Child Health Service, Edinburgh and co-founder of the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine and as a result of his contributions, became its President in 1977 and Honorary President in 1981. [7] | |
| 1979 | Sir Charles Illingworth, CBE (1900–1990) [2] [8] |
| Years | Name | Comments | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | William Cunningham (1903–1998) [2] | ||
| 1984 | Alastair Hugh Bailey Masson (1925–2009) [2] | ||
| 1987 | David A G Waddell (1927–1992) [2] | ||
| 1990 | John Blair OBE (1928– 2023) [2] [9] | Scottish consultant surgeon and medical historian, who authored a number of books. [2] [10] |  |
| 1993 | Elizabeth Margaret Rose (1916–2011) [11] | ||
| 1995 | Harold Thomas Swan (1922–2011) [2] [12] [13] | ||
| 1998 | John McColl Forrester (1923–2017) [2] |
| Years | Name | Comments | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | David John Wright (1944–) | Wright is a retired consultant anaesthetist who was also the president of the British Society for the History of Medicine from 2007 to 2009 and has been editor of the International Society for the History of Medicine's journal Vesalius . [2] |  |
| 2004 | Bryan Ashworth (1929–2012) [14] | ||
| 2007 | Roy Miller (1935–) [2] | ||
| 2010 | David Hugh Aird Boyd (1927–) [2] | ||
| 2013 | Antony Robert Butler | ||
| 2017 | Niall Diarmid Campbell Finlayson | Finlayson was appointed consultant physician and gastroenterologist at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in 1973. His special interest is in liver disease and he made particular contributions to the Infirmary's 'Liver Transplant Unit'. [15] |  |
| 2019 | Neil MacGillivray |  | |
| 2022 | Andreas Demetriades | [16] |
Sir William Stewart Duke-Elder was a Scottish ophthalmologist, a dominant force in his field for more than a quarter of a century.
Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, 1st Baronet, was a British surgeon. A notable surgeon and physician, widely respected in London and Norfolk, he was the son of a surgeon, John Clarke of Chancery Lane, London, and brother of a well-known obstetrician, John Clarke (1758–1815).
Sir Gordon Ethelbert Ward Wolstenholme, was a British medical doctor, and the founding director of the Ciba Foundation.
Ronald Haxton Girdwood was a Scottish physician, Professor of Therapeutics at the University of Edinburgh and a President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He undertook research into megaloblastic anaemia and was awarded a gold medal for his MD thesis. He was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh from 1975 to 1982 and oversaw the expansion of the medical school. He was a member of the Committee on Safety of Medicines. He was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh in 1953 and was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club in 1965. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1978 and awarded a CBE in 1985.
Peter Maxwell Daniel FRCP FRCS FRCPath FRCPsych FLS FIBiol was a British medical doctor, who specialised in neuropathology. He was president of the History of Medicine Society at The Royal Society of Medicine, London between 1979 and 1981.
Sir John Rose Cormack FRSE FRCP was a Scottish physician and medical journalist. He established several notable British journals: the Edinburgh Monthly Journal of Medical Science; the London Medical Journal; and the Associated Medical Journal.
Charles McNeil FRCPE FRCP RSE was a physician specialising in paediatrics, in particular neonatal paediatrics. He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London and Edinburgh, and was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1940-1943.
Sir James Galloway was a British physician specialising in dermatology and was consultant physician to Charing Cross Hospital. During World War I he served as a colonel in the Army Medical Services in France and was knighted by George V for services to medicine in 1918.
Robert Kirk (1905-1962) was a Scottish parasitologist and pathologist.
Anne Ferguson was a Scottish physician, clinical researcher and expert in inflammatory bowel disease. She was considered one of the most distinguished gastroenterologists in Britain.
Professor Christopher John Dickinson DM, FRCP, ARCO (1927-2015), known as John, was a British physician and clinical researcher.
Ernest Septimus Reynolds FRCP was emeritus professor of clinical medicine at the University of Manchester. In 1900 he wrote "An Epidemic of Peripheral Neuritis Amongst Beer Drinkers in Manchester and District" for the British Medical Journal, the first of a series of papers which caused a national sensation when they revealed the presence of dangerous levels of arsenic in local beer.
Sir William Gilliatt was an English gynaecologist at the Middlesex Hospital and King's College Hospital, London.
John Scott FRSE FRCPE FRCP (1797–1859) was a 19th-century Scottish naval surgeon and physician to Queen Victoria in Scotland.
Alfred George Barrs, M.D., F.R.C.P. Hon. LL.D was a physician and professor of medicine. He was among the first medical professionals to identify a link between tuberculosis and pleural effusions.
Sir Archibald Montague Henry Gray was a British dermatologist and gynaecologist, who was consulting physician for diseases of the skin at University College Hospital and to Great Ormond Street Hospital. Between 1948 and 1962, he was adviser in dermatology to the Ministry of Health. Between 1940 and 1942, he was president of the Royal Society of Medicine. In England, he was first to perform a Wertheim hysterectomy.
Patrick Stewart Boulter FRCS, FRCSEd was a general surgeon in Guildford, England. He developed a sub-speciality interest in breast surgery and was one of the pioneers in the UK of screening for breast cancer. He served as president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 1991 to 1994.