John Mitchell Bruce CVO FRCP FRCPI (1846–1929) was a British physician, pathologist, and physiologist.
He undertook postgraduate study in pathology at Vienna and at London's Brown Animal Sanatory Institution under John Burdon-Sanderson and Edward Emanuel Klein.
[2] Mitchell Bruce also conducted his own consulting practice for many years, which grew in size throughout his professional career.
[1] His best-known contribution to the medical profession was his publication, Materia Medica and Therapeutics (1884), of which 70,000 copies were sold during his lifetime.
[4]One of a notable group, with Burdon-Sanderson, Lauder Brunton, Ferrier, and Klein, Bruce laid the foundations in the seventies for that scientific development in physiology, pharmacology, and histology which was destined to prove so fruitful.