2 Quotes & Sayings By L G Mcvean

He was educated at Glasgow Academy and studied medicine at Glasgow University, graduating with honours. A few years later he qualified as a registered medical practitioner and practised for a short period of time before going into private practice for a few years. He then took up the study of medicine again, this time at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated with a Ph.D.

in Physiology and Special Medicine in 1893, being honoured with the highest degree that could be awarded by the university. A year or two after his graduation Dr McVean went to England to carry out research work for the Lever Brothers Company of Liverpool, where he worked as an industrial toxicologist for sixteen years. In 1912 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Great Britain and from 1914 to 1926 was associated with various hospitals as a consultant physician, first on the south coast and later in London, where he made his home.

In 1926 he retired from private practice and became a fellow of the Welsh National School of Medicine which had been established under his auspices at Cardiff University College Hospital, where he remained until his death on 21 October 1930 from cancer of the tongue. His wife died only eight months later on 30 April 1931 . In 1933 his remains were transferred from Cardiff to Bournemouth where they now rest under a monument erected by his friends and admirers as a memorial to both their lives and their service to humanity