Skip to content
Bending the Curve Trial by Trial
?

Physician, author of case 1 in an 1845 journal article on splenic disease

David Craigie

Royal Infirmary

Listed in the byline of the 1845 article as Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Senior Physician to the Royal Infirmary. He reported a patient admitted in 1841 whose spleen was greatly enlarged and whose veins contained purulent-looking matter, and published the case in 1845 after a similar case occurred in a colleague's ward.

Milestones

Sources

  1. Craigie D (case 1), Bennett JH (case 2). Two cases of disease and enlargement of the spleen, in which death took place from the presence of purulent matter in the blood. Edinb Med Surg J. 1845;64(165):400-423.

    PubMed