PROFESSOR’S DEATH.
" MEDICAL CRIME EXPERT. Received December 19 12.40 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 18. Scotland’s leading medical crime expert. Professor John Glaister, succumbed in the influenza epidemic. His wife died three hours later unaware of her husband’s death. Their daughter married Professor Woodruff, of Melbourne. She had arranged to leave Australia on December 25 to visit her parents.
Professor Glaister, who was born in Lanark in 1856, had been professor of Forensic Medicine at the University of Glasgow since 1898. Ho was tho holder of several degrees and was tho medical referee in industrial diseases in six countries in Scotland and medico-legal examties in Scotland and medico-legal examauthor of many publications on medical subjects.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 19, 19 December 1932, Page 7
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