BURDON-SANDERSON, SIR JOHN SCOTT, BART. (1828-1905), Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, was born at West Jesmond, near Newcastle, on Dec. 21, 1828. Educated at the University of Edinburgh and at Paris, he became in 186o medical inspector under the privy council, in which capacity he carried out important inquiries which foreshadowed the direct relation between specific micro-organisms and certain diseases. In 1874 he was appointed Jodrell professor of physiology at Uni versity college, London, retaining that post till 1882, when he took the Waynflete chair of physiology at Oxford. In 1882 the Royal Society awarded him a royal medal in recognition of his researches into the electrical phenomena exhibited by plants and the rela tions of minute organisms to disease, and of the services he had rendered to physiology and pathology. In 1895 Sanderson was appointed regius professor of medicine at Oxford. He served on three royal commissions—Hospitals (1883) , Tuberculosis, Meat and Milk (1890), and University for London (1892). He died at Oxford on Nov. 23, 1905.
Sanderson may be regarded as the founder of the modern medical school at Oxford. He introduced new methods of teach ing.
See Memoir of Sir J. Burdon-Sanderson, with a selection from his papers and addresses, by Lady Burdon-Sanderson, J. S. Haldane and E. S. Haldane (191I) .