First Discussion

Abstract

Dr. W.A. Alexander: I do not think it inappropriate at this time to recall that I met Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton in London in the Spring of 1914 at a dinner of the London University of Edinburgh Club, in my capacity as a Senior President of the Royal Medical Society at that time. During the evening I had the pleasure of sitting beside him and my recollection of him, is of a man of small stature with grey-white hair and a trim beard, he was venerable in my eyes but actually he was only 70 years of age. I remember his keen interest in what was happening in Edinburgh, especially in the Royal Medical Society. The occasion and the man remain vivid in my memory.

Dr. Walter Sommerville (Middlesex Hospital)