Sir David Paton Cuthbertson, CBE, FRSE (9 May 1900 – 15 April 1989)[1] was a Scottish physician, biochemist, medical researcher and nutritionist who was a leading authority on metabolism.
This delayed his education and he then studied medicine at Glasgow University graduating MB ChB in 1926.
In his early research, in 1936, Cuthbertson observed a loss of nitrogen (urea) in fracture patients, later referred to as surgical stress.
His proposers were James Norman Davidson, Robert Garry, Ernest Cruickshank, and Donald McArthur.
He married Jean Prentice Telfer in Arrochar on 7 September 1928; she died on 28 May 1987 in Troon.