About Robert Cochrane Buist
Lived 1860 – 1939 (aged 78–79). Robert Cochrane Buist was a British physician, obstetrician and gynecologist.
Robert Cochrane Buist (9 August 1860 – 5 February 1939) was a Scottish obstetrician and gynaecologist.
Biography Buist was born in Dundee, Scotland, and attended the High School of Dundee. He then studied mathematics at the University of St Andrews, graduating in 1881. He then studied for the mathematics tripos at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, graduating in 1883. Buist then began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh. While a student at the university he founded and edited a small fortnightly student magazine, The Student, in 1887, which remains in publication. He also served as president of the students' representative council.
Buist became a vegetarian in 1879 and was vice-president of the Dundee Vegetarian Society in 1897.
He retired in 1925 and died 5 February 1939 in Dundee.
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Who was Robert Cochrane Buist?
Scottish physician (1860–1939)
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Robert Cochrane Buist was born in 1860 in Dundee.
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Robert Cochrane Buist died on 5 February 1939 in Dundee.
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Robert Cochrane Buist was a physician, obstetrician and gynecologist.
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Robert Cochrane Buist was British.
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