Alexander Bruce (neurologist)

Dr Alexander Bruce FRSE FRCPE LLD (1854–1911) was a Scottish surgeon, neurologist and editor and publisher of The Review of Neurology and Psychiatry. He was an early advocate of the now largely discredited use of electrotherapy in the treatment of mental health disorders.

Portrait of Alexander Bruce cropped Wellcome M0005972

Life

He was born in Ardiffery near Cruden, Aberdeenshire to Alexander Bruce and Mary Milne. He was educated at Chanonry School in Aberdeen.

He attended the University of Aberdeen and then went on to the University of Edinburgh, finishing his studies in 1879. He worked as the resident neurologist an Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and then the West Riding Asylum in Yorkshire, before returning to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary where he remained for the rest of his working life.[1]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1882 and received the Society's Keith Medal for 1905-7.

He died at his home, 8 Ainslie Place, in Edinburgh's West End, on 4 June 1911.

Memorials

The Wellcome Museum of Anatomy and Pathology in London holds a recreation of Dr Alexander Bruce's Electrotherapy Room, 1905[2]

Family

He was married to Annie Louisa Connell. Their son, Alexander Ninian Bruce (d.1968) was also a neurologist, working in both Bangour Hospital and Jordanburn Nerve Hospital.[3]

Their daughter, Annie Louisa Bruce, married another eminent neurologist, Dr Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson.

References
  1. "Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1783 – 2002" (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  2. "Dr Bruce's Electrotherapy Room in 1905 - Himetop". Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  3. "Bruce, Alexander Ninian - Archives Hub". Retrieved 26 January 2017.
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