Dr John Menzies Campbell FRSE FDS DDS (1887-1974) was a Scottish dentist and dental historian, noted for his foundation of the Menzies Campbell Dental Museum, now known as the Menzies Campbell Collection: a collection of dental artefacts and pictures belonging to Edinburgh University and housed within Surgeon's Hall.
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Life
He was born in Paisley on 9 June 1887, the son of John Menzies Campbell, an inspector of the poor, and his wife Agnes.
He attended George Watson's School in Edinburgh before studying dentistry firstly at the Anderson College in Glasgow, then St Mungo's College and then the Glasgow Dental School. In 1911 he travelled to Toronto in Canada to complete his doctorate, qualifying DDS in 1912. He then returned to Scotland to spend over 40 years as a successful dentist operating from 14 Buckingham Terrace in Glasgow.
However, his principal claim to fame lies in his lifetime's collection of antique dental instruments and various artefacts and pictures relating to dentistry, also extending this passion into several books on this subject. He had a focussed interest upon the issue of dental pain, as an entity separate from other human pains.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1918, his proposers including Sir George Andreas Berry and fellow dentist William Guy.
He instituted a triennial lecture series at the RCS Faculty of Dental Surgery in 1959, and donated his personal library to their College in 1964. For the latter, he was made the first Honorary Fellow in Dental Surgery. At the same time, he also gifted the bulk of his private collection of instruments to the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh.
The dental collection, now held at the Surgeons' Hall Museum in Edinburgh, is described as being one of the finest in the United Kingdom.
He died in Glasgow on 27 June 1974.
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Family
He married Margaret Williamson Shirlaw (1893-1990) in December 1924.
Shirlaw graduated from University of St Andrews School of Medicine with an MB ChB in 1918, and went on to work as a house surgeon at Doncaster Royal Infirmary. She later joined her maternal aunt, Marion Gilchrist, in practice at 5 Buckingham Terrace, Glasgow.
After their marriage, the pair worked together on dental history, a practice she continued even after his death.
Publications
See
- A Dental Bibliography, British and American, 1682-1880 (1949)
- Dentistry as Practiced 1820-1921 (1955)
- Dentistry Then and Now (1963)
- The Making of a Dentist: The 1900s (1968)
References
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