De Wytt, William Henry ♂

Education

Lecturer in materia medica 5.8.1896 - 15.10.1898. Professor of materia medica 19.10.1898 - 29.12.1898 (resigned).Appointed by the ‘Bute party’ in the face of Senate opposition in the case of both lectureship and chair. The Senate then commissioned a private detective to investigate him and he resigned immediately on being faced with the detective’s report.

Birth/childhood

Possibly born c. 1857 x 1861 and possibly 1st August as John Forsyth, but lived under various aliases.

Career

Probably a solicitor’s clerk then at Glasgow University - M.B. B.S. 1895.

Lecturer in Materia Medica 5.8.1896 - 15.10.1898. Professor of Materia Medica 19.10.1898 - 29.12.1898 (resigned). Appointed by the ‘Bute party’ in the face of Senate opposition in the case of both lectureship and chair. The Senate then commissioned a private detective to investigate him and he resigned immediately on being faced with the detective’s report. [St Andrews University] [University lecturer, university professor]

D.P.H. R.C.P.Eng. 1900. D.P.H. Camb. [Cambridge] 1900. [Doctor]

After resignation he appears to have resided in Edinburgh until 1903. He then moved to London where he seems to have run a nursing home probably in his own residence, 105 Charlotte St, Fitzroy Square.

Publications

The dark and dawn of reason in the treatment of disease (Glasgow: James C. Erskine, 19--)

Consummate Materia Medica, with its new scheme of classification and teaching... (St Andrews: published by the author, 1898)

Death

In Med. Reg. last time1933.

Sources

• UY235/2.9
• Med. Reg.
• Med. Dir.