About the Author

Morrice McCrae was House Physician and House Surgeon at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. After service in the army overseas he was Hall Fellow in Medicine at Glasgow University, and later became Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh University and Consultant Physician at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh. After retirement he studied history at Edinburgh University. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. His recent books include The National Health Service in Scotland: Origins and Ideals (2003), The New Club (2004), Physicians and Society (2008), Simpson: The Turbulent Life of a Medical Pioneer (2010) and Scottish Medicine: An Illustrated History (2011). In 2003 he was awarded the Medical History Prize of Glasgow University.