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DR. T. FERGUSON RODGER has been chosen as the first occupant of the newly founded chair of psychological medicine in the University of Glasgow. Dr. Rodger graduated in science and medicine at Glasgow in 1927–29 and holds the diploma in psychological medicine of the University of London. During 1931–32 he worked at Johns Hopkins University, where he was a pupil of Adolf Meyer. From 1933 until 1939 he was senior assistant at Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital (Gartnavel), and an assistant to the lecturer in psychiatry in the University. Throughout the War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps as consulting psychiatrist at Headquarters, Land Forces, South-East Asia, and at General Headquarters, India. Latterly, he has been a commissioner of the General Board of Control (which functions under the Lunacy, Mental Treatment and Mental Deficiency Acts). Dr. Rodger has specialized in psychosomatic medicine. He was responsible for research into the methods of selecting officers for the army. He has also published work on fibrositis and on night-blindness.
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Psychological Medicine in Glasgow : Prof. T. Ferguson Rodger. Nature 162, 363 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162363b0
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