“ The professor of medicine in a University like that of Glasgow is expected, almost as a matter of course, to be become an important contributor to the advancement of the science which he teaches, and his duty Gairdner abundantly fulfilled. ”

“ John Gairdner, a physician in Edinburgh, and was born there on November 8, 1824, He was educated for his father's profession at the University of his native city, and graduated as M.D. in 1845. In 1850 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; and a year or two later was appointed physician and pathologist to the Royal Infirmary. He filled these offices with great efficiency until 1862, when he accepted an invitation to take the professorship of medicine in the University of Glasgow, together with the post of physician to the Western Infirmary. ”

“ Emancipated long ago from the vulgar creeds, he found the best of his life in purity of heart and conscience, and so in a moral order, and so again with a sort of cumulative conviction of a Divine Being, and probably therewith of some future phases of spiritual activity. ”