David Malcolm Murray Lyon

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DPH (1888-1956) was an English physician and medical author. He was president of the

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from 1945–47, and was editor of the Edinburgh Medical Journal.

Life

He was born in

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on 12 September 1888. He was the son of Ebinizer (sic) Campbell and William Malcolm Lyon, a veterinary surgeon. He was educated at

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then studied medicine at the

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, graduating

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in 1910. In the

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he served in the

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attached to the Cavalry Field Ambulance and saw action in both

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and

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. After the war he became Assistant physician at

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under Jonathan Meakins, jointly working on

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research, and being joined by Charles George Lambie from 1922. He received his doctorate ( MD) in 1920 with his thesis ''The viscosity of the blood'' and a DSc in 1924 with his thesis ''Some observations on the action of adrenalin''. In 1924 he became Professor of Therapeutics at the

. In the same year he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were James Lorrain Smith, Jonathan Campbell Meakins,

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, and

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. From 1936 he was Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. In 1946, he was elected to the

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of Edinburgh. He died on 16 November 1956 at 8 Hailes Gardens in Edinburgh.

Publications

*''The Essentials of Medical Treatment'' (1940)

Family

He was married to Edith Dona Lloyd. Their children included Dr William Malcolm Murray Lyon (1920-2015), Dr Jean Malcolm Grant (1917-2006) and Dr Rae Llewelyn Lyon (d. 2018). He was the cousin of Dr Ranald Malcolm Murray-Lyon (1904-1969), a senior physician at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

References

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