Byrom Bramwell

Sir Byrom Bramwell FRSE FRCPE (18 December 1847 – 27 April 1931) was a British physician and medical author.

He was a general physician, but became known for his work in neurology, diseases of the heart and blood, and disorders of the endocrine organs.

[3] In 1869 he became house surgeon under James Spence at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, but his father’s sudden illness caused him to return to North Shields to take up his role as a local general practitioner.

[3] His first major work Diseases of the Spinal Cord (1881), was translated into French, German and Russian, and won great popularity in the United States.

His proposers were William Turner, James Cossar Ewart, Robert Gray, and Peter Guthrie Tait.

[11] He died at his home, 10 Heriot Row in Edinburgh, on 27 April 1931 and was buried in Dean Cemetery close to his former anatomy teacher John Goodsir.