Plaque to Alexander Jardine Lizars (Professor of Anatomy) in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
Alexander Jardine Lizars gained FRCS Edinburgh in 1831 and for a time was lecturer in anatomy at the Extramural Medical School in Edinburgh before being appointed to the chair of anatomy at Marischal College in 1841. He published a textbook Elements of Anatomy in 1844. After the Union of Marischal and King’s Colleges in 1860 he became first Professor of Anatomy at the United Universities of Aberdeen. He was forced to resign in 1863 apparently because of dipsomania and died three years later. He “did little beyond teaching the small number of students who attended his class”. His better known brother, John Lizars, was Professor of Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.
