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It is time to pay adequate tribute to those in Edinburgh who contributed so much to the development of the specialty of anaesthesia in the years following World War II. In particular, there was John Gillies — kindly, modest, good humoured, friendly — a gentle man who built up an embryonic department into one which had a considerable influence on anaesthesia in the United Kingdom and beyond. In his time, eight future professors passed through the Department — Vandewater, A. Gillies, Green, Robertson, Robson, Payne, McDowell and Millar. But John Gillies’ influence and wise counsel were even more far reaching in medicopolitical and educational spheres, for he occupied a key post at a crucial time. He was elected Vice President of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland — the main body representing the anaesthetists in the United Kingdom — in 1946, and in the following year he became its President.
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Masson, A.H.B. (1985). The Edinburgh Contribution. In: Rupreht, J., van Lieburg, M.J., Lee, J.A., Erdmann, W. (eds) Anaesthesia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69636-7_43
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