Douglas Chalmers Watson

Douglas Chalmers Watson (1870 – 7 April 1946) M.D., F.R.C.P.Ed. was a Scottish physician and writer.

Biography

Watson was educated at George Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh. He graduated in 1892 and obtained the Wightman Prize in Clinical Medicine.

He joined the British Medical Association in 1897 and was secretary of the Section of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the London Annual Meeting in 1916. He died at Fenton Barns in 1946. It was described as a "valuable contribution to the literature of dietetics".

Selected publications

Food and Feeding in Health and Disease: A Manual of Practical Dietetics (1910, 1913) The Book of Diet (1913) The "Vital" Factor in Diet: A Theory of the Nature of Vitamins (Edinburgh Medical Journal, 1931) Radiation in Relation to Human and Animal Nutrition. With a Theory as to the Nature of Vitamins (Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1931)