Dr Elma Douglas, ophthalmologist

• Reference:GB 250 71
• Dates of Creation:1967-2005
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  6.00 Units

• Scope and Content

  Photograph of meeting of the Scottish Ophthalmic Club, 1967; menu for Canniesburn Hospital Burns supper, 1980, postcard commemorating the 100th anniversary of the meeting between Dr Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley, 1971; photographs of instruments; photographs of wooden instrument box, photographs of box containing various weights.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Dr Elma Douglas gained her medical qualifications MB ChB from Glasgow University in 1967. She passed her Diploma in Ophthalmology in 1969 and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1975. She became a Senior House Officer at the Ophthalmic Institution, Glasgow in 1968 later becoming registrar and then associate specialist. Apart from school clinics, she also attended adult clinics at Dumbarton and, for a few years, at Monklands General Hospital. She took early retirement in 1977. She is author of The Ophthalmic, a history of the Ophthalmic Institution, which was published in 2001.

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