Alexander Bruce (neurologist)

Alexander Bruce (1854–1911) was a Scottish surgeon, neurologist and editor and publisher of The Review of Neurology and Psychiatry.

He was an early advocate of the now largely discredited use of electrotherapy in the treatment of mental health disorders.

He was born in Ardiffery near Cruden, Aberdeenshire to Alexander Bruce and Mary Milne.

The Wellcome Museum of Anatomy and Pathology in London holds a recreation of Dr Alexander Bruce's Electrotherapy Room, 1905[2] He was married to Annie Louisa Connell.

[3] Their daughter, Annie Louisa Bruce, married another eminent neurologist, Dr Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson.