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Sir Alexander Ogston's role in the First World War was remarkable for the fact that he was seventy years of age when war broke out in 1914.

Sir Alexander Ogston's role in the First World War was remarkable for the fact that he was seventy years of age when war broke out in Despite a long and distinguished career as professor of surgery at the University of Aberdeen from and his role as a surgeon at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary he was quick to offer his services at the.

Celebrates the life of royal surgeon and one of Scotland's most influential medical figures Offers the first biography of one of Scotland s most influential.

He is the editor of Scottish Literature and World War I (Edinburgh UP, ) and co-editor, with Niklas Salmose, of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Composite Biography (Minnesota UP, ) and Gatsby@ (Minnesota UP, ).

"Sir Alexander Ogston", by Dr. Ian A. Porter, reprint of a paper read before the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine.

Sir Alexander Ogston was the clean freak who discovered a killer strain of bacteria. BY the late 19th century, Aberdonian surgeon and professor Alexander Ogston had earned himself quite a reputation as a man who liked everything in his lab to be meticulously clean.