From Joseph Irving – THE BOOK OF SCOTSMEN Eminent for Achievements in Arms and Arts, Church and State, Law, Legislation, and Literature, Commerce, Science, Travel, and Philanthropy (1882)
Anatomist and physiologist, son of Henry, a farmer and cattle-dealer, Bathgate. Educated at the village school and Edinburgh University for the Church, but ultimately adopted the medical profession, taking his degree of M.D., in 1830; visits Paris for the purpose of improving himself in the medical schools; assists in mitigating the severe visitation of cholera at Dumfries, 1832 – 33; returns to Edinburgh, and lectures on anatomy in the old Surgeon’s Hall, as well as at the Academical Medical School; Chandos Professor of Anatomy in St. Andrews University, 1841. Died from cancer of the tongue at the early age of 40. Dr. Reid wrote “Experimental Investigations on the Nerves,” and made many contributions to medical journals, included in his volume of “Researches,” 1848. (See Memoir by George Wilson, M.D.)
