Background
BRUCE, Alexander was born in 1854 in Ardiffery, Cruden, Aberdeenshire. Son of Alexander Bruce and Mary Milne.
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Alexander Bruce
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Education
Studied at Chanonry School, Old Aberdeen. Universities of Aberdeen (First Bursar, Simpson prizeman in Greek, Seafield medallist in Latin, Town Council gold medallist), and Edinburgh (Tyndal Bruce Bursar, Ettles scholar, Leckie MacTier Fellow), Vienna, Heidelberg, Frankfort, and Paris. Cullen prizeman at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
Master of Arts (Aberdeen).
Doctor of Medicine (Edinburgh, with Honours). Doctor of Laws (Aberdeen).
Career
He was an early advocate of the now largely discredited use of electrotherapy in the treatment of mental health. He then went to Aberdeen University and then Edinburgh University 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.
He died at his home, 8 Ainslie Place, in Edinburgh"s west end, on 4 June 1911
The Wellcome Museum of Anatomy and Pathology in London holds a recreation of Doctor Alexander Bruce"s Electrotherapy Room, 1905
Their son, Alexander Ninian Bruce (d1968) was also a neurologist, working in both Bangour Hospital and Jordanburn Nerve Hospital.
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Membership
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Club: University, Edinburgh.
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Awards
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Keith Medal
The Keith Medal is a prize awarded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy, for a scientific paper published in the society's scientific journals, preference being given to a paper containing a discovery, either in mathematics or earth sciences.The Keith Medal is a prize awarded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy, for a scientific paper published in the society's scientific journals, preference being given to a paper containing a discovery, either in mathematics or earth sciences.