Sir John Rose Cormack (1 March 1815 – 13 May 1882) was a Scottish physician and medical journalist.
[2] He attended the High School in Edinburgh and then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MD in 1837, having won the Harveian Prize in 1836 and a gold medal in 1837 for his thesis on the presence of air (oxygen) in the organs of circulation.
[3] Following graduation he visited Paris and then did a tour of both Italy and Spain before returning to Edinburgh to set up as a physician.
[6][7] In 1843, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; his proposer being Sir Robert Christison.
'[11] He died of chronic disease of the prostate and bladder at his home on Rue St Honore in Paris on 13 May 1882.