Charles Robertson Marshall

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was an early 20th century British physician.

Life

In May 1894 he became assistant to Prof

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. He left in 1899 to become Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics at

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. From 1910 to 1930 he was Regius Professor of Materia Medica at Aberdeen University. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1909. His proposers were Sir

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, Sir James Walker,

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, and Sir

Thomas Richard Fraser Sir Thomas Richard Fraser (5 February 1841 – 4 January 1920) was a British physician and pharmacologist. Together with Alexander Crum Brown he discovered the relationship between physiological activity and chemical constitution of the body ...

. He won the Society's Makdougall-Brisbane Prize for the period 1912 to 1914. He resigned from the Society in 1928.

Publications

*''A Textbook of Materia Medica'' (1905) *''The Place of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Medical Curriculum'' (1906)

References

20th-century Scottish medical doctors Academics of the University of Cambridge Academics of the University of St Andrews Academics of the University of Aberdeen Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{UK-med-bio-stub