Andrew Moir: An Aberdeen Anatomist

Andrew Moir was born in 1806, educated in King's College, Aberdeen and graduated M.A. in 1826. After becoming M.R.C.S., England, in 1828, he was a private anatomy teacher. He opened an anatomy theatre with a group of colleagues, but the hostile public feeling led to a riot in December 1831, and the building was destroyed. Three men were subsequently imprisoned, and there were complaints of official lack of concern.

Moir was popular with medical students, and mentioned in two short-lived journals of 1831 and 1835. He continued to teach and later became lecturer at the revived medical school oj King's College. Moir died in 1844: he was hardworking, appreciative of past anatomists and enthusiastic about practical dissection, vigorously defending his science against detractors.