Donald McIntyre

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MBE MID (1891-1954) was a 20th-century Scottish gynecologist and medical author.

Early life

McIntyre was born in

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on 29 July 1891 the son of Donald McIntyre. He studied medicine at

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graduating MB ChB in 1914. At the outbreak of the

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he joined the

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and served for the duration of the war, based mainly in the

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and East Africa. He was

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and was granted a military MBE after the war, also being retired on the rank of honorary Major.

Career

After the war he took a Diploma at

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. In 1920 he began working as a Pathologist for the Royal Samaritan Hospital for Women, in

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. He was given his doctorate (MD) in 1926, also being awarded the Bellahouston Gold Medal for his thesis. He stayed at the Royal Samaritan Hospital seven years, rising to be Senior Surgeon. He held multiple medical positions in Glasgow Hospitals and was both a lecturer and examiner at

. In 1927 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were

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, Sir

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, and

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 ...

Death

He died on 20 October 1954 in a

nursing home.

Publications

*''Operative Obstetrics'' (1937) *''Combined Textbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology'' (1950)

References

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