John Comrie

Comrie studied at George Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh, graduating with M.B. degree and first-class honours in 1899. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1906 and took a M.D. degree from Edinburgh in 1911,{{Cite journal|last=Comrie|first=John D.|date=1911|title=Epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis: with an account of twenty-five cases personally observed in the Leith Epidemic of 1907, and an inquiry into the spread of the disease|url=https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/30770|language=en}} before positions in the Edinburgh and Glasgow Infirmaries. After that he did post-graduate studies in Berlin and Vienna, worked as clinical assistant at the National Hospital in London, and finally settled at Edinburgh, where he became known as pathologist, physician to the Royal Infirmary, and consulting physician to the Deaconess Hospital and the Princess Margaret Rose Hospital for Crippled Children. During World War I he acted as consulting physician to the North Russian Expeditionary Force, reaching the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.

His father was also John Dixon Comrie (died before October 1939).{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19391003&id=-ZFDAAAAIBAJ&sjid=F4sMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2588,3285541|title=Obituary: Dr John Dixon Comrie: Noted Edinburgh Physician|date=3 October 1939|work=The Glasgow Herald|page=9|accessdate=7 May 2014}}

In 1929 he was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh{{Cite book|url=https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ww4e59xv|title= A Record of the Edinburgh Harveian Society|last=Watson Wemyss|first=Herbert Lindesay|publisher=T&A Constable, Edinburgh|year=1933|language=en}}{{Cite book|title=Minute Books of the Harveian Society|url=http://archives.rcpe.ac.uk/calmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DEP%2fHAR%2f1%2f1%2f1&pos=17|location= Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh}} and in 1932 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian club.{{Cite book|title=Minute Books of the Aesculapian Club|url=http://archives.rcpe.ac.uk/calmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DEP%2fAEC%2f1&pos=2|location= Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh}} In 1933, Comrie authored Diet in Health and Sickness which was positively reviewed in the British Medical Journal as a reliable guide to dietetics for practitioners.{{cite journal|year=1934|title=Review: Diet In Health And Disease|journal=The British Medical Journal|volume=1|issue=3823|pages=668}}

• Black's Medical Dictionary (1906 and later editions)
• History of Scottish Medicine to 1860 (London, Baillière, Tindall & Cox, 1927){{cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4747008|title=Catalogue record for History of Scottish Medicine|publisher=Worldcat|oclc=4747008|accessdate=7 May 2014}}
• [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006825938 Diet in Health and Sickness] (1933)
• {{cite book |last1=Comrie |first1=John D. |title=History of Scottish medicine |date=1932 |publisher=The Welcome Historical Medical Museum |location=London |edition=2nd |url=https://archive.org/details/b20457273M001|volume=1}}
• {{cite book |last1=Comrie |first1=John D. |title=History of Scottish medicine |date=1932 |publisher=The Welcome Historical Medical Museum |location=London |edition=2nd |url=https://archive.org/details/b20457273M002|volume=2}}

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• [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=120-mss1776-1778&cid=-1#-1 John Comrie papers] at The National Archives

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