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DR. JOHN DIXON COMRIE, a well-known Edinburgh physician and medical historian, whose death took place on October 2, was born on February 28, 1875, the son of Dr. J. D. Comrie. He was educated at George Watson's Academy and the University of Edinburgh, where he qualified M.B. with first-class honours in 1899, becoming F.R.C.P. (Edin.) in 1906 and M.D. in 1911. After holding resident appointments at the Edinburgh and Glasgow Infirmaries, he attended post-graduate courses in Berlin and Vienna, and was clinical assistant at the National Hospital, Queen Square, London, before settling in practice at Edinburgh, where he successively became pathologist, assistant physician and full physician to the Royal Infirmary as well as consulting physician to the Deaconess Hospital and the Princess Margaret Rose Hospital for Crippled Children, Fairmilehead, Edinburgh. During the War of 1914–18 he was consulting physician to the North Russian Expeditionary Force, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, R.A.M.C.
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ROLLESTON, J. Dr. J. D. Comrie. Nature 144, 857 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144857a0
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