1. David Maclagan MD, FRSE, FRCSEd, FRCPE was a prominent Scottish medical doctor and military surgeon, serving in the Napoleonic Wars.
12 Facts About David Maclagan
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David Maclagan served as President of both the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
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David Maclagan's father changed his name to Maclagan some time before David was born, to disassociate himself from various Jacobite connections.
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David Maclagan trained as a doctor and surgeon at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MD in 1805.
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David Maclagan was admitted as a member the Royal College of Surgeons in 1807.
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David Maclagan was appointed surgeon to the New Town Dispensary on Thistle Street, joining his friend John Thomson, one of the founders of the Dispensary, who was the first Professor of Military Surgery at the University of Edinburgh.
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When Thomson resigned the professorship in 1822, David Maclagan applied for the Regius Chair of Military Surgery at the university and with his extensive experience of military surgery in the Peninsular War, was a strong candidate.
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David Maclagan was unsuccessful, the appointment going to George Ballingall.
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David Maclagan continued in private surgical practice and with his work at the New Town Dispensary until 1848.
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David Maclagan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1828, proposed by Sir John Robison.
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In 1829 David Maclagan was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as President in 1833.
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David Maclagan died at his home, 129 George Street, in Edinburgh on 6 June 1865.