Dr James Robson Scott,M.D.

Dr James Macrae

Ham Green Hospital, Bristol from 1948 to 1976 died on 5th February 1987 aged 75 years. He was born on 24th February 1911 at Kyle of Locha'5. and educated at Dingwall Academy and Glasgow versity where he qualified in 1934. During the following years he held junior hospital posts in virtually everV medical and surgical speciality and in 1939 appointed Deputy Medical Superintendant of Lana^ shire ...

Dr James Joseph Cockburn, FRCPsych, FRCPI

Jim Cockburn, who has died aged 82, was inaugural in several domains of psychiatric practice. He was especially interested in the need to provide patients with treatment and help close to where they lived. Such an idea is taken for granted in the current structure of services, but even as late as the 1960s it was not unusual for patients to be admitted to hospitals many miles away from the fami...

Dr James Barry: the early years revealed.

The extraordinary story of Dr James Barry still excites interest and controversy over one hundred and forty years after her death. Dr Barry's army career has been well documented, but her early life has remained obscure and subject to speculation. This study advances some ideas previously presented, and from a substantial collection of contemporary manuscripts reconstructs an important part of ...

Dr. Samuel James Meltzer: physiologist of the Rockefeller Institute.

Corpses and maniacs: the loves of Dr James Douglas.

I t was a fine day in the dead of winter, 1826, when a young doctor and his wife arrived in Quebec city, Que, in a horse-drawn sleigh, galloped around the city a few times, liked the look of it, and decided to stay for the rest of their lives. The next day they sold their horse and started looking around for real estate. A few days later they bought a house. Dr James Douglas was a refugee and a...