Frederick Gardiner (radiologist)

Dr Frederick Gardiner FRSE FRCSE FRSM MD DSc (1874-1933) was a Scottish radiologist and dermatologist.

Life

He was born in Edinburgh in 1874 the son of John Gardiner and his wife Isabella.[1] He studied Medicine at Edinburgh University graduating MB CM in 1895. He then worked as a Resident first at Stirling Royal Infirmary, then at Dundee Royal Asylum.[2] He returned to Edinburgh for further study, gaining a diploma in Public Health in 1901. He took on a role as Leith Hospital’s radiologist in 1901. He gained his doctorate (MD) in 1902 writing his thesis on x-ray use in pulmonary tuberculosis.

From 1904 he worked as Assistant Physician at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. In 1912 he became a senior Physician and also began lecturing in Dermatology at Edinburgh University and in extramural classes.[3] He did much to pioneer (in retrospect now seen as a mistake) the use of x-rays in treating of skin diseases.[4] He also worked with Sir Robert Philip on the use of x-rays to diagnose tuberculosis.[5]

He lived close to both university and infirmary, at 9 George Square in Edinburgh (now demolished).[6]

During the First World War he worked at Bangour Village Hospital advising on issues relating to the skin, and building its later reputation for work on skin grafts for burn victims.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1923. His proposers were Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Sir James Alfred Ewing, David Gibb, and Arthur Crichton Mitchell.[7]

He died at home in Manor Place, Edinburgh, following a long illness (thought to be skin cancer induced by over-use of x-rays), on 8 September 1933.[8] He was cremated at Warriston Crematorium on 11 September.

Publications

See[9]

Family

He was the father of John Percival Gardiner.

References

  1. ↑ https://www.geni.com/people/Frederick-Gardiner/6000000007328778933
  2. ↑ Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: obituaries, January 1934
  3. ↑ British Medical Journal, Christmas 1984, article “Dermatology in Edinburgh”
  4. ↑ Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, January 1934
  5. ↑ British Medical Journal, 16 September 1933
  6. ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1915-16
  7. ↑ BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  8. ↑ http://www.bad.org.uk/shared/get-file.ashx?id=423&itemtype=document
  9. ↑ https://archive.org/details/handbookofskindi00garduoft
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