Dr. Alexander Macfarlane

Dr. Francis Alexander Carron Scrimger.

helps. The November 11th ceremonies that occur all around the world challenge us to examine our present against the sacrifices and struggles of the past. My grandfather, Dr. Francis Alexander Carron Scrimger, served as a surgeon on the front lines in the 1st World War and received a Victoria Cross at the 2nd battle of Ypres. Throughout my growing up I always marvelled at this fact, even as I st...

Dr Alexander Gordon of Aberdeen.

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2010: 36(4) Navy surgeon One of the shining lights in the history of obstetrics was Dr Alexander Gordon, who was born in Strachan, about 20 miles south west of Aberdeen in 1752. He studied at Marischal College, where he obtained an MA, and graduated in medicine from Aberdeen University. In 1780, Gordon entered the Navy as surgeon’s mate and 2 years later ach...

Dr Alexander Gordon (1752-99) and contagious puerperal fever.

Alexander Gordon, one of twin boys, was born in 1752 in the parish of Strachan, 20 miles south west of Aberdeen. Little is known of his early life, but he obtained an MA at Marischal College, and after further study at the Aberdeen Infirmary and in Edinburgh, graduated in medicine at the University of Aberdeen. In 1780, at the age of 28, with testimonial letters from the Corporation of Surgeons...

12 - LEAD ECG ELECTRODE PLACEMENT AND ASSOCIATED PROBLEMS . Prof . Macfarlane and Dr . Coleman , SCST Update 1995

Comments on MacFarlane

The natural answer to this question, MacFarlane takes it, is “yes”. I do not propose to harp on the question of whether MacFarlane has the data right. Let us just assume, for the sake of argument, that he does. Let us further assume that his interpretation of the data is correct—i.e., that these judgments are assessments of the the whole clause and not simply of the prejacent. Granting all this...