John Gibson Fleming

Dr John Gibson Fleming FRSE PFPSG (1809-1879) was a Scottish surgeon, medical administrator and President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow 1865 to 1868, and 1870 to 1872.

Life

He was born in Glasgow on 2 December 1809.

He studied at Glasgow High School then Glasgow University, also spending some time in Paris and Italy studying anatomy and surgery receiving his doctorate (MD) in 1830.[1]

He returned to work in Glasgow (for all his life) first in more parochial roles and then in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, having survived a serious attack of typhoid fever contracted in the former role. He was manager of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary from 1850.[2] From 1839 to 1878 he also served as Surgeon to the Gartnavel General Hospital.[3]

In 1872 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Andrew Wood. [4] In 1876 he was co-founder of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary Medical School. He was chief medical advisor to the Scottish Amicable Life Assurance Company.

He died on 2 October 1879 following a relapse of his earlier typhoid fever, at home at 155 Bath Street in Glasgow.[5] He was married with three sons, one of whom, Mr W M J Fleming, lectured in Physiology.[6]

Publications

His main publication, Medical Statistics of Life Insurance (1862), still forms the basis of much life insurance assessment.[7]

Artistic Recognition

He was posthumously painted by Sir Daniel Macnee based upon a photograph in later life. The painting dates from around 1881 and hangs in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.[8]

References

  1. ↑ British Medical Journal, 25 October 1879, p.677
  2. ↑ British Medical Journal, 25 October 1879, p.677
  3. ↑ http://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b21892143
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Glasgow Post Office Directory 1879
  6. ↑ British Medical Journal, 25 October 1879, p.678
  7. ↑ British Medical Journal, 25 October 1879, p.678
  8. ↑ http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSJ00042
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