Mair, Robert Slater ♂
Education
M.D. 3.8.1850 by examination.
Birth/childhood
Born 27.10.1820 son of John Mair, Paisley and Susanna Slater.
Career
Studied University of Edinburgh - medical student 1846-1847 and Glasgow University.
L.R.C.S.E. 1850 when he was from Paisley. F.R.C.S.E. 1863.
House surgeon Paisley Infirmary.
Practised Madras [now Chennai, India] 1850-1867. Bayswater 1867 -. [Doctor]
Published medical papers and on India.
Statistics of unnatural deaths in Madras and other presidencies and provinces in India. (Madras: Gantz Borothers, 1868)
Instructions for the medical treatment of coolies and others on coffee estates...Written especially...by R.S. Mair in Coffee planting in southern India and Ceylon. (London: Spon, 1877). Appendix, pp. 313-324.
Death
Died 21.12.1920.
Sources
- Med. Dir.
- Lancet 1921 i 101
- Obituary in British Medical Journal, Jan. 15, 1921. 1(3133): 106.