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WILLIAM ALLAN JAMIESON
Author(s) -
J. A. MacDougall
Publication year - 1916
Publication title -
british journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.304
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1365-2133
pISSN - 0007-0963
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1916.tb16763.x
Subject(s) - medicine
Born in the Manse of Dreghorn, the "Dalmailing" of Gait's Annals of the Parish, in 1839, Jamieson received his early education at Irvine Academy, of which he was Dux in 1854. He spent two years in the Arts Classes of the University of Glasgow, but not, as might perhaps have been expected in an only son of the manse, with any intention of following in his father's footsteps. Nor at this stage of his career had he any thought of medicine, and he left Glasgow without completing his curriculum, to seek his fortune in Queensland, where some of his relatives had settled. He was singularly unsuited