Edward Waymouth Reid 1862–1948

Physiology and Pathophysiology 2023

“…This followed a long history of competitive antagonism. When I took up the Symers Chair of Physiology at the University of Dundee in 1975, I found papers and pictures in my office, which had once belonged to Waymouth Reid 3 (Symers Professor of Physiology, 1889–1935), showing that he occasionally hanged an effigy of the professor of anatomy on a miniature gallow at the end of his lectures to medical students. However, anatomy—and specifically light microscopy—has experienced a remarkable renaissance.…”