Papers of Dr R. Leishman M.D., Ophthalmologist

• Reference:GB 250 42
• Dates of Creation:1958-1967
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
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• Scope and Content

  Materials relating to articles entitled ‘The Influence of Vascular Changes in Progressive Failure of Vision’, 1958, ‘The Cardiovascular and Haemopoietic Systems’, 1961-1962 and ‘Vascular Diseases of the Retina’, 1966-1967.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Robert Leishman qualified MD (Hnrs) Glasgow 1948; MB ChB 1932; FRCP Glas 1964. He won the Treacher Collins Prize in 1954. He was the author of the chapter “Cardiovascular System” in Modern Ophthalmology edited by Professor Arnold Sorsby, 1963; “Gastric Function in Tobacco Amblyopia” Transactions of the Ophthalmological Societies of the United Kingdom 1951 and “Eye in General Vascular Disorder” British Journal of Ophthalmology, 1957. He was Consultant Ophthalmologist at the Southern General Hospital, Glasgow.

• Access Information

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• Other Finding Aids

  Descriptive list available at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

• Related Material

  RCPSG 1/20/4/20 Essay by Dr. R. Leishman, “The Eye in General Vascular Disease, Hypertension and Arteriosclerosis.”