Macintyre Iain
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9DW, UK.
J Med Biogr. 2007 Nov;15(4):206-12. doi: 10.1258/j.jmb.2007.06-46.
Until the start of the 20th century, appointment to a chair in surgery in Britain was usually awarded in recognition of an already successful career. Sir David Wilkie was among the first of the new breed of professors of surgery appointed at a relatively young age to develop surgical research and undergraduate teaching. At the University of Edinburgh, he established a surgical research laboratory from which was to emerge a cohort of young surgical researchers destined to become the largest dynasty of surgical professors yet seen in the British Isles. He is widely regarded as the father of British academic surgery. Born in the same Scottish village as the writer JM Barrie (1860-1937), like Barrie, Wilkie became a philanthropist. Both men were to achieve eminence in later life and when Barrie was appointed Chancellor of Edinburgh University, their friendship developed. Barrie's legacy to Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital was one of the greatest ever acts of medical philanthropy, and Wilkie too proved to be a generous benefactor of the disadvantaged.
直到20世纪初，在英国被任命为外科教授职位通常是对已经成功的职业生涯的认可。大卫·威尔基爵士是新一代相对年轻就被任命来开展外科研究和本科教学的外科教授中的第一批。在爱丁堡大学，他建立了一个外科研究实验室，一批年轻的外科研究人员将从这里涌现，他们注定会成为不列颠群岛迄今为止见过的最大的外科教授群体。他被广泛视为英国学术外科之父。他与作家JM·巴里（1860 - 1937）出生在同一个苏格兰村庄，和巴里一样，威尔基成为了一名慈善家。两人在晚年都声名显赫，当巴里被任命为爱丁堡大学的校长时，他们的友谊得以发展。巴里留给大奥蒙德街儿童医院的遗产是有史以来最伟大的医学慈善行为之一，威尔基也被证明是弱势群体的慷慨捐助者。
