John Mitchell Bruce

John Mitchell Bruce (1846–1929) was a British physician, pathologist, and physiologist.

Biography After education at Aberdeen Grammar School, J. Mitchell Bruce matriculated at the University of Aberdeen, where he graduated MA in 1866. He studied medicine at the Middlesex Hospital, graduating MB (Lond.) in 1870. He undertook postgraduate study in pathology at Vienna and at London's Brown Animal Sanatory Institution under John Burdon-Sanderson and Edward Emanuel Klein. Bruce briefly held a junior appointment at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary before he was appointed in 1871 lecturer in physiology at Charing Cross Hospital. There he became in 1873 assistant physician, in 1882 full physician, and in 1904 consulting physician upon his retirement. He relinquished his physiological lectureship in 1877, taught materia medica from 1877 to 1890, and medicine from 1890 to 1901.

Bruce was married and had one son.

Awards and honours 1878 — FRCP 1901 — Lettsomian Lecturer on Diseases and Disorders of the Heart and Arteries in Middle and Advanced Life 1911 — Lumleian Lecturer on Cardio-Vascular Degeneration 1913 — Harveian Orator 1919 — CVO

Selected publications