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is considered the oldest

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at the

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. It was formed in 1989 from the merge of the Regius Chairs of the Practice of Medicine (founded in 1637) and of Materia Medica (founded in 1831). The chair has so far had two occupants, Professor John Reid, who was previously Regius Professor of Materia Medica and - since 2010 - Professor Anna Felicja Dominiczak, the first woman to have ever held the post.

Regius Professor of the Practice of Medicine

The Chair of the Practice of Medicine was founded in 1637 and, after a lapse, revived in 1712. It was endowed by Queen Anne in 1713, becoming the Regius Chair.

Practice of Medicine Professors

* Robert Mayne MA (1637–1646)

Practice of Medicine Regius Professors

* John Johnstoun MD (1714) *

William Cullen William Cullen (; 15 April 17105 February 1790) was a British physician, chemist and agriculturalist from Hamilton, Scotland, who also served as a professor at the Edinburgh Medical School. Cullen was a central figure in the Scottish Enli ...

MD (1751) * Robert Hamilton (1756) *

Joseph Black Joseph Black (16 April 1728 – 6 December 1799) was a British physicist and chemist, known for his discoveries of magnesium, latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide. He was Professor of Anatomy and Chemistry at the University of Glasgow ...

MD (1757) * Alexander Stevenson MD (1766) *

Thomas Charles Hope Thomas Charles Hope (21 July 1766 – 13 June 1844) was a Scottish physician, chemist and lecturer. He proved the existence of the element strontium, and gave his name to Hope's Experiment, which shows that water reaches its maximum density at ...

MD FRS (1789) * Robert Freer

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MA MD (1796) * Charles Badham MA MD FRS (1827) * William Thomson MD (1841) * John MacFarlane (1852) * Sir

William Tennant Gairdner Sir William Tennant Gairdner (8 November 1824 – 28 June 1907) was a Scottish Professor of Medicine in the University of Glasgow. Early life William Tennant Gardiner was born in Edinburgh, the son of physician John Gairdner and his wife, Su ...

KCB MD LLD FRS (1862) * Sir Thomas McCall Anderson MD (1900) *

Samson Gemmell Samson Gemmell Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, FRFPS (1848 – 2 April 1913) was a Scottish pediatrics, paediatrician who became Regius Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics#Practice of Medicine Regius Professors, Regius Pr ...

(1908) * Thomas Kirkpatrick Monro MA MD LLD (1913) * Sir

John William McNee Sir John William McNee FRSE DSO (1887-1984) was a 20th century British pathologist and bacteriologist. Life He was born on 17 December 1887 in Mount Vernon in north Lanarkshire (now part of Glasgow the only son of John McNee. The family moved ...

DSO MD DSc LLD (1936) * Sir Edward Johnson Wayne MSc MD PhD (1953) * Graham Malcolm Wilson MD DSc (1967) *

Professor Sir Abraham Goldberg Sir Abraham Goldberg (7 December 1923 – 1 September 2007) was a British physician who was a Regius Professor of the Practice of Medicine at the University of Glasgow. He was educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh and the Universit ...

KB MD DSc FRCP FRSE (1978–1989)

Regius Professor of Materia Medica

The Regius Chair of Materia Medica was founded in 1831 by

King William IV William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837. The third son of George III, William succeeded hi ...

from the lectureship in Materia Medica, instituted in 1766.

Materia Medica Regius Professors

* Richard Millar (1831) * John Couper (1833) * John Black Cowan (1865) * Matthew Charteris

(1880) *

Ralph Stockman Ralph Stockman (3 August 1861–27 February 1946) was a Scottish Regius Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics, Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics at the University of Glasgow. He was an expert on iron deficiency anaemia. Life Stoc ...

(1897) * Noah Morris (1937) * Stanley Alstead (1948) *

(1970) * John Low Reid (1978)

Medicine and Therapeutics Regius Professors

* John Low Reid BD DM FRCP FRSE FMedSci (1989–2010) * Anna Felicja Dominiczak, OBE, FRCP, FRSE, FAHA, FMedSci (2010-)

References

*''Who, What and Where: The History and Constitution of the University of Glasgow'', compiled by Michael Moss, Moira Rankin and Lesley Richmond.
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