Stanley Davidson
| Sir Stanley Davidson | |
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| Born |
3 March 1894 Sri Lanka |
| Died | 27 September 1981 (aged 87) Colinton, Edinburgh |
| Fields | Medicine, Medical Rheumatology |
| Institutions | University of Aberdeen, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge, University of Edinburgh |
| Influenced | John George Macleod |
Sir Leybourne Stanley Patrick Davidson BA MD PRCPE FRCPFRSE (1894-1981) was a British physician, medical investigator and author who is well known for his medical textbook "Principles and Practice of Medicine", which was first published in 1952.
Sir Stanley Davidson was born on 3 March 1894 in Sri Lanka (then known as Ceylon), to Sir Leybourne Francis Watson Davidson and Jane Rosalind Dudgeon Davidson. He had his education at Cheltenham College, England and later at Trinity College, Cambridge where he began his undergraduate medical education, graduating BA.
At the onset of World War I in 1914, he enlisted in the Gordon Highlanders, and his medical education was interrupted. He was seriously wounded in the war in 1915 while he was fighting in France, and spent the next two years recovering. He then resumed his medical studies at the University of Edinburgh and in 1919 graduated MB ChB with first class honours.
He then worked as a house physician at Leith Hospital.
He became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1921, and was awarded a Gold Medal in 1926 for his work.
In 1928, he was appointed as assistant physician to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He then was appointed as Professor of Medicine at the University of Aberdeen in 1930, which was one of the first full-time Chairs of Medicine anywhere and the first in Scotland. While working there, he spent his time in hospital work, teaching and research, not preferring private practice.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1932. His proposers were Arthur Logan Turner, James Ritchie, Thomas Jones Mackie and William Thomas Ritchie.
In 1938, he was given the Chair of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, in which he remained until he retired in 1959. He was also the President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1953 to 1957, and the President of The Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland in 1957. He played an important role in upgrading, modernising and broadening the hospital teaching facilities within Edinburgh area.
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