James Jeffray

In around 1830 he is credited with invention of the surgical chainsaw, used to remove damaged sections of bone in an accurate manner.

[2] In 1813 a mob smashed the windows of his house at College Court, wrongly believing that he was connected to the theft of the body of Janet McAlister from the Ramshorn Cemetery in central Glasgow.

On 4 November 1818 (assisted by Andrew Ure) he dissected the body of executed murderer Matthew Clydesdale.

His body was subjected to galvanism (passing of an electric current) in the anatomy rooms, in an experiment to study the impact on the human nervous system.

[7] In 1821 he was ordered to close a shop selling cheese and ham in the College Court which he had opened without permission.

[12] Peter McDougall, the physician and naturalist who discovered the roseate tern (Sterna dougallii) was his nephew.