Dr Elma Douglas, ophthalmologist

Photograph of meeting of the Scottish Ophthalmic Club, 1967; menu for Canniesburn Hospital Burns supper, 1980, postcard commemorating the 100th anniversary of the meeting between Dr Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley, 1971; photographs of instruments; photographs of wooden instrument box, photographs of box containing various weights.

Dr Elma Douglas gained her medical qualifications MB ChB from Glasgow University in 1967. She passed her Diploma in Ophthalmology in 1969 and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1975. She became a Senior House Officer at the Ophthalmic Institution, Glasgow in 1968 later becoming registrar and then associate specialist. Apart from school clinics, she also attended adult clinics at Dumbarton and, for a few years, at Monklands General Hospital. She took early retirement in 1977. She is author of The Ophthalmic, a history of the Ophthalmic Institution, which was published in 2001.

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