Thomas Richard Fraser

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Sir Thomas Richard Fraser

Sir Thomas Richard Fraser (born February 5, 1841 in Calcutta , † January 4, 1920 in Edinburgh ) was a British medic and pharmacologist.

Life

He studied at the University of Edinburgh and received his doctorate in 1862. In 1869 he became a medical assistant at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary . In 1877 he took part in an Arctic expedition. In 1877 he became professor of medicine at the University of Edinburgh and professor of clinical medicine the following year. In 1880 he was dean of the medical faculty.

He later also advised insurance companies and the Scottish Prisons Commission. In 1869 he became a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in 1877 a member of the Royal Society . In 1889/90 he reported for the first time on the arrow poison in the coastal area of ​​Kenya and examined the calabar bean and Strophanthus hispidus . In 1898/99 he was President of the Government Commission for Research on Bubonic Plague in India and in 1900 President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh . In 1900 he was knighted as Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath .

With his wife Susanna Margaret Duncan Fraser he had a son, Sir Francis Richard Fraser (1885-1964), who was also a professor in Edinburgh.

Publications

  • The antagonism between the actions of active substances ; British Medical journal, 1872
  • On the Physiological Action of the Calabar Bean, Physostigma Venenosum Balf. ; Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, XXIV, 1867, PMC 1318559 (free full text)
  • On the connexion between chemical constitution and physiological action ; ibid XXV
  • On Stropanthus hispidus ; ibid XXXV
  • An investigation into some previously undescribed tetanic symptoms produced by atropia in cold-blooded animals
  • Strophanthus hispidus: its Natural History, Chemistry and Pharmacology. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. XXXV, 955-1028

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A. Keleová, E. Huraj, E. Jahnová, S. Janota, S. Nyulassy: [Selected immunologic indicators in malignant bone tumors]. In: Acta chirurgiae orthopedicae et traumatologiae Cechoslovaca. Volume 57, Number 1, February 1990, pp. 77-88, ISSN  0001-5415 . PMID 2336911 .
  2. ↑ zeno.org: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors
  3. ↑ scienceandsociety.co.uk: Thomas Richard Fraser, toxicologist, 1884
  4. ↑ nndb.com: Thomas Richard Fraser in the Notable Names Database (English)
  5. ↑ HD Neuwinger: African Ethnobotany: Poisons and Medicines ( Memento from March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Knights and Dames at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
personal data
SURNAME Fraser, Thomas Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fraser, Sir Thomas Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British medic and pharmacologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Calcutta
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 1920
Place of death Edinburgh