Abernethy, Christine Calder, 1896-1987, medical student, University of Glasgow, Scotland,

Christine Calder Abernethy was born on 25 May 1896 , at Aberthorne, Biggar, in Scotland. Her father, Archibald Abernethy, was a butcher. She was a medical student at the University of Glasgow , where she graduated MBChB in 1919 . She studied at Queen Margaret College, University of Glasgow, between 1915 and 1919.

In her first year she had taken classes in botany, zoology, physics and chemistry. In her second year she studied anatomy and physiology. She then took materia medica and therapeutics and pathology, before taking surgery, clinical surgery, practice of medicine, clinical medicine, midwifery, medical jurisprudence and public health in her final year. She registered with the Scottish branch of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom on 25th July 1919, at which time her address was in Milngavie, Glasgow.

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