Person Hamilton; David James (1849 - 1909) Hamilton David James 1849 - 1909 Male 06 March 1849 19/02/1909 19090219

Education: BM Career: Professor of Pathology, University of Aberdeen (by 1903) Fellow 07/05/1908 Sources: Bulloch's Roll Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc Series B 1909 vol 81 pp i-v signed by J T C Notes: In the Printed List of Candidates 1906-1914 there are two Supplementary Certificates. The first with the following citation: Amongst later contributions bearing on the study of causation and prevention of certain communicable diseases, the following may be mentioned: - 'On Braxy' (Trans Highland and Agric Soc, 1902); 'The Relationship of Human Tuberculosis to that of Bovines' (ibid, 1903). The proposers are: C Niven; F R Japp; J W H Trail; C S Sherrington; D J Cunningham; [John Burdon Sanderson]. The second has the following citation: In the year 1901, the Board of Agriculture appointed Prof Hamilton chairman of a Department Committee to investigate the disease known popularly as Louping-ill (chorea paralytica ovis) and Braxy (morbus subitarius ovis). The Report of the Committee was issused in June of the past year, 1906 and contains a fine exposition by Prof Hamilton of the Pathology of these and allied diseaes, showing them to be due to a class of pathogenic anaerobes previously almost unknown. A method of prevention has also been discovered by him which in practice has reduced the tremendous mortality from these diseases to a level commensurate with profitable sheep farming. The proposers are: J W H Trail; F R Japp; William Turner; C S Sherrington; J T Cash; J G McKendrick; James Dewar International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 6 Mar 1849 - 19 Feb 1909 NA3559 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/285060694 f24cc42d-a39d-482a-87ad-7027e030e0db