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MORE than fifty years ago Thomas Wemyss Fulton and I worked side by side in Turner's dissecting-room in Edinburgh, with David Bruce and Nöel Paton among our comrades there. D. J. Cunningham, then senior demonstrator, was studying the anatomy of the Challenger marsupials; the junior demonstrator was designing the Cathcart microtome; and the laboratory attendant, ‘old Stirling’, the real first inventor of the micro-tome, was making his exquisite preparations, as Goodsir had taught him to do. A prize, of some value for those days, was given for the best dissections of the year; I have forgotten its name, but I remember that I won it one year and Fulton the next. Scholarships were few and scanty. Many of us found some employment, to help pay our way—in part or whole; and Fulton, with indomitable strength, courage, and self-denial, was a telegraphist by night in the G.P.O. and a medical student by day. He graduated with first-class honours; and when he took his M.D., three years later, his thesis was a study of ‘telegraphists' cramp’, based both on observation and experience.
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THOMPSON, D. Dr. T. Wemyss Fulton. Nature 124, 846–847 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124846a0
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