Gairdner, William Tennant ♂

Education

Extra medical examiner 1857-1862.

Birth/childhood

Born 8.11.1824 son of John Gairdner, physician, Edinburgh. [Doctor]

Career

Physician Edinburgh Royal Infirmary 1853 and extra-mural lecturer to 1862. Professor of medicine, Glasgow University 1862-1900 (retired to Edinburgh). Also ex officio physician to Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Chief M. O. [Chief Medical Officer] for Glasgow for ten years. [Doctor, university lecturer, university professor]

Extra medical examiner 1857-1862. [St Andrews University]

President B.M.A. [British Medical Association] 1888. M.D. Edinburgh and Dublin 1887. LL.D. Edinburgh 1883. F.R.S.

Publications on public health etc.

Public health in relation to air and water. (Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1862)

Death

Died 28.6.1907 at Colinton.

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