Douglas Guthrie

Douglas James Guthrie MD FRSE FRCS FRSM FRCP FRCSEd FRCPE FSA DLitt (8 Sept. 1885 - 8 June 1975) was a Scottish medical doctor, otolaryngologist and historian of medicine.

He was born in Dysart in Fife, the son of Rev William Guthrie, minister of the United Free Church. He was educated at Kirkcaldy High School and the Royal High School, Edinburgh. He then studied Medicine at Edinburgh University, graduating MB ChB in 1907. He won the McCosh Travelling Scholarship and undertook further studies in Berlin, Hamburg, Jena, Vienna and Paris. He was awarded his doctorate in 1909 and FRCSEd in 1913.

In the First World War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps but remained in Britain as commander of a military hospital affiliated to the Royal Flying Corps. He then worked as a GP in Lanark before returning to Edinburgh to work at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children, where he became an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist.

In 1930 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Thomas James Jehu, James Hartley Ashworth, Ralph Allan Sampson and Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer. He served as the Society's Curator from 1949 to 1959 and as Vice President from 1959 to 1962.

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