[3] After education at Stockport School, Milne matriculated at the University of Manchester, where he graduated BSc in 1936 and MB ChB (Manch.)
After the war he returned to Manchester where, as lecturer in medicine, he collaborated with Douglas Black in experiments on potassium depletion, carried out on themselves.
[1] By the early 1950s Malcolm Milne's reputation as a physician and clinical scientist was growing fast, and in 1952 he was invited by Professor John McMichael to join his remarkable team at the Postgraduate Medical School.
There he was able to develop his interest in metabolic disorders and renal medicine and he published a series of important papers of which the most significant, in his own view, was that on the excretion of weak acids and bases.
The following year the same patient consulted a Dr Conn.[5]In 1961 Milne was appointed to the chair of medicine at the Westminster Hospital Medical School, where he retired in 1981.