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Alexander Macgregor Buchanan Obituary
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ALEXANDER MACGREGOR BUCHANAN, M.D. Glasc., F.R.F.P.S.G.
By the death of Dr. Alex. M. Buchanan the cause of extra- mural medical teaching in Glasgow has lost one of its chief supporters, while the loss to the Anderson College of Medicine, where for the last forty-one years he acted as Professor of Anatomy, is simply incalculable. Other professors and lecturers might come and go, adorning its class-rooms for a few years till they were provided for elsewhere; but Dr. Buchanan was AGRY oc ete Obituary?
a fixture. His name became as well known as that of the College itself, and admiring students, infected by the reports of their predecessors, came in numbers every year to study anatomy in his rooms. He had a great reputation as a teacher of anatomy, and he well deserved it. He had a long and varied training for the post he so long held and adorned.
Born in 1844, Dr. Buchanan was educated at the High School, Glasgow, was dux of the junior division of the late Dr. M‘Kindlay’s Latin class, 1855-60, and captured all the first prizes and medals open to him. He entered the University of Glasgow in 1860, graduating in Arts in 1864, taking the degrees of M.B., C.M. four years later, and that of M.D. in 1871. In 1874 he became a Fellow of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, and at the time of his death was the oldest member of its board of examiners. As a student of anatomy he studied under the late Professor Allen Thomson and Dr. Mitchell Banks, afterwards the eminent anatomist and surgeon of Liverpool. As soon as he graduated he was appointed Senior Demonstrator of Anatomy by Professor Allen Thomson, and held this post for four years. During this period he formed that method of lecturing and demonstrating which he afterwards carried out so brilliantly in the Anderson College. At the close of his demonstratorship he spent two years as house surgeon and house physician in the Royal Infirmary, thus gaining a thorough knowledge both of surgery and medicine, and especially of the points which could be most aptly illustrated in his anatomical lectures. In 1874 he was appointed to the Chair of Anatomy in Anderson’s College Medical School on the promotion of the late Professor George Buchanan to the Chair of Clinical Surgery in the University.
In his new Chair Dr. Buchanan had but one aim—to become a great teacher of anatomy. He was a brilliant dissector, and though much less of an artist than his great teacher, Professor Allen Thomson, he had imbibed much of the latter’s skill at the black-board. He made not only clear pictures in chalk, but every specimen he demonstrated was converted by his scalpel into a picture designed to show without confusion the points he wished to insist on, and such that no student could fail to recognise and understand every topic prelected on. His students were the first to perceive the artistic clearness and Obituary. 439
precision of every demonstration, and were often heard to say, as they left his class-room, “ Well, we have learnt a lot to-day.” His style and manner in lecturing were formed partly after those of Professor Allen Thomson, but also, and to a greater degree, on those of Thiedemann, of Heidelburg, for whom Dr. Buchanan frequently expressed the greatest admiration. In 1906 Dr. Buchanan published a Manual of Anatomy in two handsome volumes, fully illustrated by drawings, some original, others from many different sources. The descriptions given are in his most characteristic style—short, terse, and clear, suited to the wants of students.
The work he did for the Anderson College was manifold. His teaching maintained and even advanced its reputation, and this was recognised alike by his students and by his colleagues, who from the oldest to the youngest regarded him as a source of strength both in their councils and in the daily performance of the duties of his chair. On the removal of the College to its present position his labours on its behalf were exceptionally arduous and fruitful, and he was of the utmost assistance by the practical aid he gave in the work of its building and establishment.
His Manual of Anatomy was not only an aid to learners far beyond the limits of the College, but its graphie and clear descriptions attracted within the walls many students desirous of sitting at the feet of one in whose hands the study of anatomy could be rendered so perspicuous and so attractive. Those who had learnt of him became in their turn further messengers of his fame; and it is no exaggera- tion to say that there are former students of his in every part of the world to bear testimony to the value of his work, and to grieve at the news of his decease.
Held as he was by all in high estimation as a teacher and scientific worker, the pleasures of familiar intercourse with him were amplified by the ease and affability of his relations alike with colleagues and students. Dignity and courtesy were ever the characteristics of his association with them, and those among them who knew him more intimately entertained for him feelings of a warmth perhaps somewhat unusual between teacher and taught.
In addition to the work of his Chair, Dr. Buchanan occupied 440 Obituary.
for fifteen years the post of Freeland Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology in the Anderson College, the lectures being directed towards the teaching of the general principles of these subjects to laymen. In this popular branch of his subject he was no less successful than in its scientific exposition, and his course attracted large numbers of the laity to the Anderson College. These lectures are now included in the course of the Technical College. Froin 1890 to 1896 he was Examiner in Anatomy to the University of Glasgow, and for many years, as has been already indicated, he was examiner in that subject to the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons.
Many years ago Dr. Buchanan’s health broke down, and, though he partially recovered, he had been in recent years more or less of an invalid. He was able to discharge the duties of his Chair till last summer. His death on 9th November was rather unexpected, and to the many students who loved him with a whole-hearted affection it will come as the news of the loss of a dear and intimate friend.
The following is a list of Dr. Buchanan’s publications :—
“ Well-marked lobulation of kidneys in a human adult,” Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, 1892.
“ Use of peroxide of hydrogen in the preparation of bones,” zbid., 1893.
“ Diverticulum of small intestine,” zbid., 1894.
“ Abnormal cecum and vermiform appendix, zbid., 1894.
“Calcareous body from burse over patella,” zbid., 1894.
- Abnormal sternum,” ibid.
Manual of Anatomy, Systematic and Practical, including Embryology, two volumes, 1906.
GEORGE COATS, M.D. Guase., F.R.C.S., Lonpon.
WE regret to announce the death of Mr. George Coats, which took place on 2nd November at a nursing home in Edinburgh, at the early age of 39 years. A son of the late Mr. Allan Coats, and nephew of the late Professor Joseph Coats, he was born at Paisley in 1876, and studied medicine at Glasgow University, where he took the degrees of M.B., Ch.B. in 1897, and that of M.D. in 1901. His thesis, written while he was house surgeon
Table of Contents
I. Terminology and Relative Positions ..... i
II. General Embryology ........ 8
THE ANIMAL CELL ......... 8
CELL-DIVISION ......... 9
GERM-CELLS . ......... 12
FERTILIZATION OF OVUM ....... 20
DEVELOPMENT OF OVUM . . . . . . .26
EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT ....... 33
BROAD OUTLINES OF ORGANOGENY ...... 53
INTRA-UTERINE CONDITIONS . . . . , , . IO4
GENERAL GROWTH . . . . . . . . IIO
III. Osteology . . . . . . . . . .113
INTRODUCTORY . . . . . . . . . II3
IV. Bones of Trunk ......... 125
VERTEBRAL COLUMN . . . . . . . 125
RIBS AND CARTILAGES . . . . . . , -154
STERNUM . . . . . . . . . .160
THORAX AS A WHOLE ........ 165
DEVELOPMENT OF TRUNK BONES . . . . . 167
V. Bones of Head . . . . . . . . .172
occipital . . . . . . . . . .172
THE MAXILL.E . . . . . . . . 2 JI
HYOID . . . . . . . . . . .235
SKULL AS A WHOLE . . . . . . . .237
REGIONS .......... 242
INTERIOR OF CRANIUM ........ 259
FCETAL SKULL ......... 265
RACIAL PECULIARITIES ........ 268
DEVELOPMENT OF SKULL ....... 270
TEETH, WITH DEVELOPMENT ....... 278
VI. Bones of Upper Limb ........ 289
VII. Bones of Lower Limb ........ 334
hip bone .......... 334
THE PELVIS ......... 342
FEMUR .......... 345
LEG AND FOOT . . . . . . . • *355
VIII. Joints ........... 392
GENENA 1 .......... 392
IX. The Upper Limb ......... 397
back . .......... 397
PECTORAL REGION . . . . . .. . 412
AXILLA . . . . . . . , . .422
ARM . .......... 446
SHOULDER-JOINT ......... 461
FOREARM AND HAND ........ 465
DEVELOPMENT AND MORPHOLOGY . . . . . -515
JOINTS.516
X. Lower Limb .......... 529
GLUTEAL REGION . . . . . . . , .529
BACK OF THIGH ......... 540
FRONT AND INNER SIDE OF THIGH ...... 551
HIP-JOINT.590
LEG .... 598
KNEE-JOINT .......... 628
SOLE OF FOOT.64 1
TIBIO-FIBULAR JOINTS ........ 659
XI. The Abdomen ......... 674
PERINEUM.674
ABDOMINAL WALL ......... 704
INGUINAL HERNIA ......... 745
ABDOMINAL CAVITY ........ 754
INTESTINAL STRUCTURE ........ 856
DEVELOPMENTAL POSITIONS ....... 874
LIVER AND OTHER VISCERA ....... 884
MALE PELVIS.^4
FEMALE PELVIS ......... 965
PELVTC ARTICULATIONS ....... 988
XII. The Thorax. 994
WALL .......... 994
THORACIC CAVITY ......... 1002
MEDIASTINUM ......... IOTI
HEART .......... IO48
DEVELOPMENT . . . . . . . . . TO73
OTHER CONTENTS ......... 1085
VERTEBRAL JOINTS. lI0 5
JOINTS OF RIBS, COSTAL CARTILAGES, AND STERNUM . . ITIO
XIII. Development of Vascular Systems . . . . .1116
PRINCIPAL ARTERIES AND VEINS . . . . . . IIl6
PRINCIPAL VEINS . . . . . . . . II23
INFERIOR VENA CAVA ........ II33
LYMPHATIC SYSTEM . . . . . . . .II37
XIV. The Head and Neck ........ 1141
BACK OF SCALP AND NECK . . . . . . . II4T
SCALP AND TEMPORAL REGION ...... II53
BASAL PART OF CRANIAL CAVITY . . . . . . 1162
SIDE OF THE NECK . . . . . . . . II7I
CONTENTS OF ORBIT ........ I247
FACE . .......... 1263
TEMPORAL AND INFRATEMPORAL REGIONS .... I3OI
DEEP DISSECTION OF NECK ....... 1 323
MOUTH CAVITY ......... 1335
NASAL CAVITY ......... I356
PHARYNX .......... 1366
DEVELOPMENT ......... 1373
LARYNX .......... 1379
PREVERTEBRAL MUSCLES . . . . . . . 1397
JOINTS OF ATLAS, AXIS, AND OCCIPITAL BONE . . . I4O4
XV. The Nervous System . . . . . . . .1410
SPINAL CORD ......... 1410
EXTERNAL CHARACTERS . . . . . . . I416
INTERNAL STRUCTURE ....... I42O
DEVELOPMENT ......... I436
encephalon: parts ........ 1442
SUPERFICIAL ORIGINS OF CRANIAL NERVES .... 1 446
rhombencephalon: medulla . . . . . .1451
PONS .......... 1468
CEREBELLUM ......... 1475
THE FOURTH VENTRICLE ....... I488
telencephalon: hemispheres ...... 1493
OLFACTORY LOBE AND RHINENCEPHALON . . . . I5IO
LATERAL VENTRICLE . . . . . . . 1522
BASAL GANGLIA ........ I 5 26
THIRD VENTRICLE ........ 1533
MESENCEPHALON ........ 1547
STRUCTURE OF CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES .... 1561
VESSELS JO F ENCEPHALON ...... I57O
DEVELOPMENT OF ENCEPHALON . . . . . . 1581
DEVELOPMENT OF PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM . . 1597
CHAPTER
XV. The Nervous System ( continued )
MENINGES OF ENCEPHALON CRANIAL NERVES CRANIO-CEREBRAL TOPOGRAPHY AUTONOMIC SYSTEM .
XVI. The Eye ....
COATS ....
REFRACTING MEDIA DEVELOPMENT
XVII. The Ear ....
EXTERNAL EAR .
MIDDLE EAR INTERNAL EAR MEMBRANOUS LABYRINTH DEVELOPMENT OF EAR
GLOSSARY ....