John Brown Buist, M.D.(Edin.), B.Sc.(Edin.), F.R.C.P.Ed., F.R.S.Ed. (1846-1915) : an acknowledgment of his early contributions to the bacteriology of variola and vaccinia / by T.J. Mackie and C.E. van Rooyen.

  • Thomas J Mackie
Date:
[1937]
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Credit: John Brown Buist, M.D.(Edin.), B.Sc.(Edin.), F.R.C.P.Ed., F.R.S.Ed. (1846-1915) : an acknowledgment of his early contributions to the bacteriology of variola and vaccinia / by T.J. Mackie and C.E. van Rooyen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following is a list of his publications :— “ Notes of a case of retroversion of the gravid uterus ” {Trans. Edin. Obstet. Soc., 1880, vol. v., pp. m-116). “ Case of malignant stricture of oesophagus ; circumscribed gangrene of left lung ; double pneumonia ; autopsy ” {Edin. Med. Journ., 1882, vol. xxvii., pp. 878-882). “ Note on a case of triplets ” {Trans. Edin. Obstet. Soc., 1885, vol. x., PP- 153156). “ The life-history of the micro-organisms associated with variola and vaccinia. An abstract of results obtained from a study of small¬ pox and vaccination in the surgical laboratory of the University of Edinburgh ” {Proc. Royal Soc. Edin., 1886, vol. xiii., pp. 603-620). Vaccinia and Variola : a study of their life-history (London, 1887).* “ The composition and action of natural and cultivated vaccine and variolous materials ” {Practitioner, 1896, vol. lvi., pp. 480-492). “ The micro-organisms of vaccine materials ” {Lancet, 1900, vol. ii., pp. 1414-1416 ; also letter, p. 1680). “ The art of vaccination ” {Trans. Edin. Obstet. Soc., 1901, vol. xxvi., pp. 164-181). “ The micro-organisms of vaccine materials ” {Proc. and Trans. Scottish Micros. Soc., 1904, vol. iii., pp. 35-53). iA Recent advances in our knowledge of some pathogenic micro¬ organisms ” {Proc. a?id Trans. Scottish Micros. Soc., 1904, vol. iii., pp. 57-72). Some readers of this Journal may possibly retain an intimate knowledge of Buist which goes far beyond anything we can say in appraising his personality and work. It is only possible for us to glean from his record and publications the out¬ standing features of his life and researches. Certain of his publications and his thesis reveal him as an ardent supporter and able exponent of the microbic theory of disease which at an early stage of his career was the subject of acrimonious controversy. He was apparently an enthusiastic vaccinator and advocate of vaccination. His book on vaccinia and variola shows that he was inspired and actuated by the work of Pasteur, Lister and Koch and was fully acquainted with the developments at that time in bacteriological study. As stated in the preface his object was “ to determine the bacteric form in which the contagium of vaccinia and variola exists, in the materials which are capable of reproducing these diseases * One of us is greatly indebted to Sir Norman Walker for a copy of Buist’s book on Variola and Vaccinia. It bears the inscription in hand¬ writing : “ To Dr Norman Walker with the compliments of the Author. March 1896.”
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