[1] Findlay was also the first person to hold the Samson Gemmell Chair of Child Health at the University of Glasgow.

[2] The interest in rickets resulted in Findlay to visit Germany for post-graduate study, to work with Heinrich Finkelstein in Berlin.

Findlay opened a clinic in Wimpole Street in Marylebone and at the same time was appointed as a physician at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children.

At the start of World War II, Findlay worked as a doctor at Children's Department of the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford.

After experimenting on puppies, both Findlay and Paton believed that the underlying cause of rickets was a lack of sunlight, exercise and fresh air.

This was a view that was against the prevailing idea at the time, that the disease was caused by a toxin They believed that sufficient sunlight, exercise and fresh air would halt the symptoms of Rickets, particularly in overcrowded industrial cities like Glasgow.