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Robert James Blair (Blair) Cunynghame

1840/1–1903

Scottish surgeon. Resident physician, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Medical officer, Edinburgh New Town Dispensary, 1868–80. Surgeon, Edinburgh Ear Dispensary, 1876–1903. Examiner and conservator of museum, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1877–1903. Physician, Edinburgh Royal Hospital for Sick Children, 1880–3. Superintendent of Statistics, Registrar General’s Department in Scotland, 1884–1903. President, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1892.

Source

J. Gray 1952, Medical directory 1865–.

Bibliography

Gray, James. 1952. History of the Royal Medical Society, 1737–1937. Edited by Douglas Guthrie and with a foreword by Robert Hutchison. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Vols. 10,11]

Medical directory: The London medical directory … every physician, surgeon, and general practitioner resident in London. London: C. Mitchell. 1845. The London and provincial medical directory. London: John Churchill. 1848–60. The London & provincial medical directory, inclusive of the medical directory for Scotland, and the medical directory for Ireland, and general medical register. London: John Churchill. 1861–9. The medical directory … including the London and provincial medical directory, the medical directory for Scotland, the medical directory for Ireland. London: J. & A. Churchill. 1870–1905.

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