Level of Description: Fonds
Extent and Medium of the unit of description: 6 items
Name of creator(s): Douglas, Dr Elma, ophthalmologist
Administrative/Biographical History
Dr Elma Douglas, ophthalmologist, gained her medical qualifications MB ChB from Glasgow University in 1967. She passed her Diploma in Ophthalmology in 1969 and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1975. She became a Senior House Officer at the Ophthalmic Institution, Glasgow in 1968 later becoming registrar and then associate specialist. Apart from school clinics, she also attended adult clinics at Dumbarton and, for a few years, at Monklands General Hospital. She took early retirement in 1977. She is author of The Ophthalmic, a history of the Ophthalmic Institution, which was published in 2001.
Scope and content
Photograph of meeting of the Scottish Ophthalmic Club, 1967; menu for Canniesburn Hospital Burns Supper, 1980; photographs of instrument box and scalpels by Pettie and Company, Dundee. Photographs of wooden instrument box by W B Hilliard & Sons; Photographs of box containing various weights for scales by Griffin & Tatlock Ltd.
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Language/scripts of material
English
Finding aids
Descriptive list available at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
Archivist's Note
Compiled by Carol Parry, Archivist, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
Rules or Conventions
ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, International Council on Archives (2nd edition, 2000).
Date(s) of Descriptions
July 2002. Amended April 2005, July 2005