Alexander Dyce Davidson (professor)

Alexander Dyce Davidson MD FRSE (24 August 1845 – 26 July 1896) was a British academic and surgeon.

He there studied ophthalmic surgery under Xavier Galezowski and Louis-Auguste Desmarres.

Aberdeen University then asked him to lecture in Ophthalmic Surgery and Materia Medica (the latter initially under Prof Harvey).

His proposers were Charles Edward Wilson, George Chrystal, Thomas Brown, and Peter Guthrie Tait.

[3] He died an hour after an apoplectic attack in front of his students during a lecture on 22 October 1886.