Thomas Richard Fraser
Thomas Fraser | |
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Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1897) | |
Scientific career | |
Fields | pharmacology |
Sir Thomas Richard Fraser
Life
He was born in
Fraser attended the University of Edinburgh Medical School and graduated with an MD[5] and gold medal in 1862. His award-winning thesis was based on the positive medical applications of physostigmine. This had been discovered by Sir Robert Christison in 1846 but its suggested uses were largely as a humane killing mechanism rather than as a medical tool.[6]
In 1869, Fraser was a medical assistant professor at the
In his later life he was both a consultant of insurance companies and of the Prisons Commission.
In 1867, he was elected a Fellow of the
In 1889 and 1890 he reported about an arrow poison used in coastal areas of
He received honorary doctorates from the universities of Aberdeen (LLD), Glasgow (LLD), Edinburgh (LLD), Cambridge (DSc) and Dublin (MD).[6]
In later years he lived at 13 Drumsheugh Gardens in Edinburgh's West End.[14]
He died in Edinburgh on 4 January 1920. He is buried in Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh, not far from his home. The grave lies in the south-west of the first northern extension, on the wall backing onto the original cemetery.
Family
With his wife Susanna Margaret Duncan Fraser (1850–1929) they had three daughters and eight sons:
- Thomas, was given the middle name Christison in honour of the discoverer of Physostygmine
- Mary Susanna Fraser (1877–1956)
- George Moir Fraser (1878–1932)
- Gertrude Agnes Fraser (b. 1882)
- John Duncan Fraser, died in infancy in 1882
- Lieutenant Commander William St John Fraser (1883–1915), was commander of the submarine E 10 when it was destroyed by enemy action in the North Sea near Heligoland with the loss of all hands
- Sir Francis Richard Fraser (1885–1964), also became a Professor of Materia Medica in Edinburgh
- Henry Chapman Fraser (1887–1916)
- Caroline Annie Fraser (1889–1966)
- Frederick Palmer Fraser (1891–1907) died young
- Eric Malcolm Fraser (1896–1960) who in 1943 was appointed Director-General of Aircraft Production in the Ministry of Aircraft Production
Artistic recognition
His sketch portrait of 1884, by
Publications
- The antagonism between the actions of active substances; British Medical journal, 1872
- On The Physiological Action Of The Calabar Bean, Physostigma Venenosum Balf.; Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, XXIV, 1867[16]
- On the connexion between chemical constitution and physiological action; ibidem XXV
- On Stropanthus hispidus; ibidem XXXV
- An investigation into some previously undescribed tetanic symptoms produced by atropia in cold-blooded animals
- Strophanthus hispidus: its Natural History, Chemistry and Pharmacology. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. XXXV, 955–1028
References
- PMC 2336911.
- ^ Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Ärzte bei. Zeno.org. Retrieved on 5 June 2014.
- ^ Thomas Richard Fraser, toxicologist, 1884. scienceandsociety.co.uk (23 April 2008). Retrieved on 5 June 2014.
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- ^ Fraser, Thomas R. (1862). "The characters and properties of the physostigma venenosum".
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(help) - ^ a b c https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/sites/default/files/notable_fellow.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
- ^ Minute Books of the Aesculapian Club. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
- ^ T. R. Fraser. Nndb.com. Retrieved on 5 June 2014.
- ^ Neuwinger, H.D. Afrikanische Ethnobotanik: Gifte und Arzneien. neuwinger-online.de
- ^ "The Coronation Honours". The Times. No. 36804. London. 26 June 1902. p. 5.
- ^ "No. 27494". The London Gazette. 11 November 1902. p. 7165.
- ^ Watson Wemyss, Herbert Lindesay (1933). A Record of the Edinburgh Harveian Society. T&A Constable, Edinburgh.
- ^ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1911–12
- ^ "Artworks | Page 13 | National Galleries of Scotland". www.nationalgalleries.org. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
- PMID 17230725.