Regius Chair of Clinical Surgery
The Regius Chair of Clinical Surgery is a surgery chair at the University of Edinburgh . It was established in 1802 and by King George III. (and thus a royal professorship, regius professorship ).
Emergence
Towards the end of the 18th century, surgeons argued for the establishment of a separate chair in clinical surgery in Edinburgh as opposed to the general chair in medicine. They considered the subject important enough to warrant a chair of their own. James Russell turned to the city council and was rewarded with the establishment of a professorship and the post of professor, which was declared a Regius Professorship a year later.
List of Regius Professors of Surgery in Edinburgh
| Surname | name suffix | from | to | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Russell (1754-1836) | 1803 | |||
| James Syme (1799-1870) | 1833 | Student and then rival of Robert Liston . He moved to University College London for five months in 1847, but then returned to his Regius Professorship. | ||
| Joseph Lister | 1869 | Lister was the son-in-law of Syme and from 1854 his House Surgeon. From 1860 he worked as Regius Professor of Surgery in Glasgow, where he worked on many basics in the military hospital. Lister developed the use of carbole as a disinfectant in Edinburgh. | ||
| Thomas Annandale (1838–1907) | 1877 | Prior to his appointment as Regius Professor, Annadale was House Surgeon and Assistant to Syme. | ||
| Francis Mitchell Caird (1853-1926) | 1908 | Caird was a student of Lister. | ||
| Harold Stiles (1908-1946) | 1919 | |||
| John Fraser (1885-1947) | 1927 | |||
| James Learmonth | KCVO, CBE | 1946 | 1956 | Before this professorship, Learmonth had been a Regius Professor in Aberdeen for four years. |
| John Bruce (1905-1975) | CBE, TD, FRCS (Ed.) | 1956 | ||
| Patrick Forrest (born 1926) | 1971 | |||
| David Carter (born 1940) | 1988 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s History of the Chair of Clinical Surgery ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the University of Edinburgh website; Retrieved July 23, 2014.
- ↑ a b Communication on the appointment of John Bruce as Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University of Edinburgh in the London Gazette of August 3, 1956.
