Arthur Logan Turner FRCSEd FRSE LLD (4 May 1865 – 6 June 1939) was a Scottish surgeon, who specialised in diseases of ear, nose and throat (ENT) and was one of the first surgeons to work at the purpose-built ENT Pavilion at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
During his surgical career he published a series of clinical papers and wrote a textbook of ENT surgery which proved popular around the world and ran to several editions.
[2] Turner went to school at Fettes College then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating MB CM in 1889.
[3] In childhood he lived at 6 Eton Terrace[4] and In later life at 27 Walker Street in Edinburgh's West End.
An 11th edition, now entitled Logan Turner's Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Ear, Head and Neck Surgery was published in 2015.
His proposers were Daniel John Cunningham, George Chrystal, James Geikie and Henry Littlejohn.
[14][15] As his father had been before him he was elected president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1925 in succession to Professor Harold Stiles.