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DB. A. E. RITCHIE, who has been appointed to the chair of physiology in the University of St. Andrews in succession to Prof. P. T. Herring, has had a wide training, having graduated M.A. and B.Sc. in mathematics, zoology and physiology at the University of Aberdeen, and later, in 1940, obtained the M.B., Ch.B. in the University of Edinburgh. In 1945 he was awarded the Gold Medal for his M.D. thesis on the electrical diagnosis of nerve injury. His postgraduate work began when he was holding a Carnegie Scholarship in the Physiology Department of the University of Edinburgh. In that Department he has stayed, combining varied teaching experience with original research. His most important contribution, both to physiology and medicine, has been to design a reliable and relatively simple and compact electronic apparatus for the determination of strength-duration curves, thus converting a laboratory procedure into a practical clinical one. This apparatus is valuable in the diagnosis of nerve injury. Thus Dr. Ritchie‘s interests lie in the fields both of physiology and of clinical medicine. He has published a number of papers on muscle and nerve reactions both in health and disease, and has contributed an article on muscle reactions in the forthcoming "Encyclopaedia of British Surgical Practice".
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Physiology at St. Andrews : Dr. A. E. Ritchie. Nature 161, 922 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161922c0
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