Francis Mitchell Caird

Francis Mitchell Caird. Photograph by A. Swan Watson. Wellcome V0026152
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The grave of Prof Francis Mitchell Caird, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh

Francis Mitchell Caird FRCSEd (8 August 1853 – 2 November 1926) was a Scottish surgeon who was an early advocate of Listerian antisepsis and then asepsis. He was a pioneer of gastrointestinal surgery. From 1908 to 1919 he was Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University of Edinburgh and was President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 1912 to 1914.[1][2]

  1. ^ "History of the Chair of Clinical Surgery" (PDF). 21 January 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Francis Mitchell Caird". Edinburgh Medical Journal. 33 (12): 743–747. 1926. ISSN 0367-1038. PMC 5320352.