Alexander Gordon
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Alexander Gordon
(Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 1752 - 1799)
DescriptionALEXANDER GORDON MD 1752 - 1799 OBSTETRICIAN FIRST DESCRIBED THE INFECTIOUS NATURE OF CHILDBIRTH FEVER LIVED HEREHistoryObstetrician. Born in Peterculter he gained his MA at Marischal College before reading medicine at Aberdeen Infirmary, Edinburgh and Leiden. He worked as a surgeon in HM Navy prior to studying midwifery in London. Gordon was appointed physician to the Aberdeen Dispensary in 1785 and published A Treatise on the Epidemic Puerperal Fever of Aberdeen, 1795.
Location Info17, Belmont Street
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