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Folk Fae Fife The Fife Science Festival |
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Professors, suffragettes, life savers, and forward-thinkers— Fife’s biologists, physicians and chemists are responsible for many advances in the fields of biology and medicine. Current research by staff at the new University of St Andrews Medical building are well equipped to continue to influence the course of medicine. Scientists from St Andrews and Dundee just secured a £1M grant to research applications with lasers to deliver drugs to cells, which will contribute to stem cell research and to developments in agriculture. Read more here. |
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James Gillray, The Cow-Pock—or—the Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation!—vide. the Publications of ye Anti-Vaccine Society. Print (color engraving) published June 12, 1802 by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street. Here St Andrews alumnus Edward Jenner is mocked for using cowpox to inoculate against smallpox. |
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Berry was a surgeon, but he is perhaps most influential as a merchant and explorer. In 1822 he established the first European settlement on the south coast of New South Wales. The Australian town that developed from his land grant is named Berry. |
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· 30 Nov 1781 – 17 Sept 1873, Hill of Tarvit, near Cupar |
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Anderson was a pioneer in medicine. She was the first female to study medicine at St Andrews University in 1862, but the furore surrounding this lead to the revocation of her place. Even so, in 1865 she became the first licensed female to practice medicine in Britain. |
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· 9 June 1836 – 17 Dec 1917, University of St Andrews student, St Andrews |
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· 1835-24 June 1875, University of St Andrews professor, St Andrews |
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Professor of Medicine at St Andrews 1863-1875. Bell held the Chandos Chair of Medicine and Anatomy at St Andrews from 3 Nov 1863 until his death 24 June 1875. Dr. Bell Pettigrew assumed the position in 1875. |
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Daughter of Elizabeth Anderson, Louisa Anderson also made a name for herself as a physician in Britain. Her work establishing hospitals operated by women during World War I was pioneering. |
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· 28 July 1873 – 11 Nov 1943, St Leonards School alumna, St Andrews |
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E-mail: folkfaefife@st-andrews.ac.uk |
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Black’s pharmaceutical strengths earned him a Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988 for his work to develop drugs. Black is responsible for both propranolol and cimetidine, two types of beta-blockers used to prevent heart failure. He attended Beath High School in Cowdenbeath and then University College of The University of St Andrews. |
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· 14 June 1924 - 22 March 2010, University of St Andrews alumnus |
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Professor of Medicine at St Andrews from 23 October 1849 until his resignation on 16 May 1863. |
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· 1815-1872, St Andrews |
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After studying at St Andrews, Goodsir apprenticed in dentistry in Edinburgh where he later taught anatomy. In Anstruther, he wrote an influential essay on Teeth (1840), and his "Anatomical Memoirs” were published posthumously. His work allegedly led to a restoration of Edinburgh’s reputation for medicine. |
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· 20 March 1814 – 6 March 1867, born Anstruther, University of St Andrews alumnus |
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· 17 May 1749 – 26 Jan 1823 , University of St Andrews alumnus |
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Jenner, most noted for his development of a smallpox vaccine, is considered to be the “father of immunology”. Prior to his pioneering smallpox treatment, there had been no immunizations against disease. He earned his M.D. from St Andrews in 1792. |
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As a pharmacologist, Jack developed major drugs. Salbutamol (Ventolin®), an asthma inhaler, and ranitidine (Zantac®), a treatment for peptic ulcers, are credited to him. His contributions to medicine have saved millions of lives in Fife and across the world. |
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· Born 22 Feb 1924, in Markinch |
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Brady earned an LLD degree from St Andrews in 1889 and went on to practice medicine and be the Professor of Natural History at the Durham College of Science in Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1875 to 1906. The Royal Society recognized his work with the Challenger Expedition (1872-76) that laid the foundations for oceanography, and he became a Fellow in 1882. |
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· 1832 – 1921, University of St Andrews alumnus |