James Syme (1799–1870)

Scottish surgeon. Studied at Edinburgh University, and visited medical schools in Germany in 1824. Taught and practised surgery at the Brown Square school of medicine and later in his own lecture course. Established a private surgical hospital at Minto House, Edinburgh. Published Principles of surgery (1832). Professor of clinical surgery, University of Edinburgh, 1833–69. Surgeon-in-ordinary to the queen in Scotland from 1838. President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1850.