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Robert Cochrane Buist
Born(1860-08-09)9 August 1860
Dundee, Scotland
Died5 February 1939(1939-02-05) (aged 78)
Dundee, Scotland
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Robert Cochrane Buist (9 August 1860 – 5 February 1939) was a Scottish obstetrician and gynaecologist.

Biography

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Buist was born in Dundee, Scotland, and attended the High School of Dundee.[1] He then studied mathematics at the University of St Andrews, graduating in 1881. He then studied for the mathematics tripos at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, graduating in 1883. Buist then began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh.[2] While a student at the university he founded and edited a small fortnightly student magazine, The Student, in 1887, which remains in publication.[1][3][4] He also served as president of the students' representative council.[2][1]

Buist worked as an assistant physician at the Royal Edinburgh Asylum before returning to Dundee to specialise in obstetrics.[1][2] In 1901 he was appointed lecturer of clinical midwifery and gynaecology at the University of St Andrews.[2] He was also an honorary obstetrician and gynaecologist to the Dundee Royal Infirmary and a consultant to the Perth Royal Infirmary.[1] He was a member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.[5]

Buist became a vegetarian in 1879 and was vice-president of the Dundee Vegetarian Society in 1897.[6]

He retired in 1925 and died 5 February 1939 in Dundee.[1][2][7]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "R. C. Buist, M.D., LL.D., Consulting Gynaecologist, Dundee Royal Infirmary; Past Chairman, Central Midwives Board For Scotland". The British Medical Journal. 1 (4075): 304–305. 11 February 1939. ISSN 0007-1447. JSTOR 20302415.
  2. ^ a b c d e Blair, J. S. G. (1990). "Robert Cochrane Buist". Ten Tayside Doctors. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press. pp. 59–65. ISBN 978-0-7073-0600-1 – via Internet Archive.
  3. ^ Holland, Thomas Henry (1933). "Introduction". In Turner, A. Logan (ed.). History of the University of Edinburgh, 1883–1933. Edinburgh University Press. pp. xiii–xxx.
  4. ^ "R. C. Buist, M.A., B.A., M.B., C.M." The Student. 10 May 1889. pp. 1–2.
  5. ^ "Well Known Dundee Citizen's Death". Evening Express. 6 February 1939. p. 5. (subscription required)
  6. ^ Gregory, James Richard Thomas Elliott (2002). "Biographical Index of British Vegetarians and Food reformers of the Victorian Era". The Vegetarian Movement in Britain c.1840–1901: A Study of Its Development, Personnel and Wider Connections (PDF). Vol. 2. University of Southampton. p. 21.
  7. ^ R. W. T. (June 1939). "Robert Cochrane Buist". Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 46 (3): 579–581. doi:10.1111/j.1471-0528.1939.tb05356.x. ISSN 1470-0328.
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