Murdoch Cameron

In an improvised operating theatre crowded with doctors and undergraduates on the top floor of the Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital on 10 April 1888, Murdoch Cameron carried out the first Caesarean section under modern antiseptic conditions.

In 1894, on the recommendation of the Secretary of State for Scotland, Sir George Trevelyan, Murdoch Cameron succeeded Leishman to the position of Professor of Midwifery at the University of Glasgow.

In an anonymous letter to The Times, London, on 8 January 1894, one correspondent condemned Murdoch Cameron's election as 'a heavy blow to the prestige and prosperity of Scotch Universities'.

[1] Nevertheless, Cameron held the position of Professor of Midwifery for thirty-two years, and was awarded an honorary LLD for 'a long period of faithful, useful and distinguished service'[2] by the University of Glasgow at his retirement.

In a famous incident on 23 February 1900, a large crowd of students at the University of Glasgow surrounded the German lecturer, Professor Alexander Tille.

The students berated Professor Tille, first English translator of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, for an article in Die Woche in which he condemned British conduct in the Boer War.