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MACALISTER, Donald was born on May 17, 1854 in Perth, Scotland. Son of late Donald MacAlister, Tarbert, Cantire.
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The General Medical Council I ts Powers and I ts Work. IT happens that I have never myself had to listen to what is called an Opening A ddress. But I have read a good many, and they have not always caused me to regret my deprivation. At Cambridge and at StB artholomew s, where I was a medical student, these ceremonial orations were not in favour. At the beginning of the session we metas usual, and set to work at once. I hope that before this hour is over you will not be tempted to wish that the like custom prevailed in Manchester. It may reassure you if I say that I do not propose to offer you a formal exhortation. Time and temperament have precluded me from trying to emulate the eminent leaders of the profession who in past years have discoursed to you from this place. My aim will be humbler and perhaps more practical. I propose to speak informally, but as I trust not loosely, on various matters concerning our common profession and its government with which at one time or another it behoves us all to be acquainted, and about which many mistakes are made for want of knowledge. When I was honoured with the invitation to address you at the beginning of a new academic year, I was told that my audience would consist chiefly of medical students and practitioners with a sprinkling of intelligent laymen. That information or warning had something to do with my choice of a subject. For the General Medical Council has points of interest for students, practitioners, and laymen alike; and my only fear is that I may fail to make them as interesting as they really are. My chief difficulty lies in the misconceptions that exist regarding the Council spowers and its work. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.
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MACALISTER, Donald was born on May 17, 1854 in Perth, Scotland. Son of late Donald MacAlister, Tarbert, Cantire.
Aberdeen; Liverpool; Saint John's College Cambridge. Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. University, Leipzig. Gold medallist Roval Geographical Society.
Thrice Queen's Gold Medallist, Science and Art Department.
Scholarships at Balliol, Worcester, Oxford, Saint John's College, Cambridge. Herschel Prizeman, 1876.
Senior Wrangler and First Smith’s Prizeman, 1877. Mathematical Master at Harrow, 1877.
Doctor of Medicine; Master of Arts Cambridge.
Bachelor of Science London. Doctor of Laws.
In November 1877, he was elected a Fellow of Saint John"s College, Cambridge. MacAlister remained a fellow of Saint John"s College until the end of his life, and was senior tutor from 1900 to 1904. In 1879, he published a paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society on "The Law of the Geometric Mean." The work was in response to a question put by Francis Galton and contains what is now called the log-normal distribution.
After a spell teaching mathematics at Harrow School, MacAlister returned to his original intention of studying medicine, first at Cambridge, later in 1879 at Saint Bartholomew"s Hospital, and for a short time at Leipzig.
In 1881, he settled in Cambridge, and took up medical teaching, investigation, and practice, and in 1884, when he graduated Doctor of Medicine, became physician to Addenbrooke"s Hospital. He was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1886.
His native tongue was Gaelic and he is said to have spoken well German, Norse, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Czechoslovakian, Basque, Turkish, Greek, Arabic, Swedish, Russian, Serbian, Afrikaans and Romany, id est (that is) nineteen languages including English. MacAlister also assisted Inagaki Manjiro with a petition to the Council of the Senate to allow Japanese students to obtain exemption from the study of Latin and Greek for entrance examinations.
MacAlister played a very important part in the work of the General Medical Council (General Medical Council).
He was elected to it in 1889 as representative of Cambridge University and became its president in 1904. In 1931, after an unbroken twenty-seven years in office, he stood down on grounds of ill health. In 1907, MacAlister was appointed Principal of the University of Glasgow, a position from which he retired in 1929.
During those years, the university grew substantially.
Upon his resignation, he was elected Chancellor of the university by the General Council. MacAlister took a leading part in the university business of the country.
He was one of the founders of the Universities Bureau of the British Empire, and was for many years Chairman of the Standing Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the British universities. MacAlister"s work was widely recognised.
He received honorary doctorates from thirteen universities and was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1908 and created a baronet, of Tarbert, Cantire, in the County of Argyll, in 1924.
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Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Clubs: Athenaeum, National Liberal.
College, Art, Glasgow.