John Macintyre
John Macintyre or Mcintyre
Life
Macintyre was born in High Street, Glasgow. His father was a tailor. His mother was related to the missionary and explorer
As part of his interest in the larynx, he was responsible for creating the first self-illuminated endoscope around 1894/5.[2][failed verification]
Macintyre is mostly known for applying his electrical engineering knowledge to medicine. In 1885 he became Consulting Medical Electrician at Glasgow Royal Infirmary where he established a "department for the application of medical electricity" in 1887. In 1893 he became President of the British Laryngological Society. In 1895 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were John Gray McKendrick, James Thomson Bottomley, Magnus Maclean and William Jack.[3]
Late in 1895,
Macintyre went further and recorded an X-ray movie of the moving legs of a frog, and presented the results in a report "On Roentgen X-Rays, or the new photography" to the Philosophical Society of Glasgow in 1896. In the same year, he set up the world's first radiology department at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, where X-ray photographs were used in the diagnosis and treatment of patients. There, Macintyre produced the first images of renal stones and various inner body parts. For his groundbreaking work, he received many awards and honours.
In 1897 he moved to London and founded the Rontgen Society of London. He served as their first President.[4]
He was also President of the West of Scotland Branch of the British Medical Association, Corresponding Fellow of the American and French Laryngological Associations, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Royal Microscopical Society, among other posts.[5]
He died on 29 October 1928.
Family
In 1892 he married Agnes Jean Hardie.
References
- ^ a b John Macintyre. University of Glasgow
- ^ a b http://sshm.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/PROCEEDINGS-SESSION-1994-1995-and-1995-1996.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
- ^ "Roentgen Society of London - The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
- ^ John Macintyre Strathclyde University