John Tait (1878 – 21 October 1944) was a 20th-century Scottish physician, physiologist and medical author.
[3] He undertook postgraduate studies at Göttingen and Berlin and began lecturing in Experimental Physiology at Edinburgh in 1910.
His essay on “Yohimbine : a contribution to the study of narcotic agents” was awarded the Edinburgh University Milner Fothergill Medal in Therapeutics, 1911.
[4] In the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Macedonia and Italy.
[6] This followed a 4-year interregnum during the First World War following the premature death of Prof George Mines.