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Dr. David Rorie who died on
Feb. 18 at the age of seventy-nine was equally distinguished in medicine,
literature and folklore studies. He was educated at Aberdeen and Edinburgh
Universities graduating M.D-, C.M. and obtaining the D.P.H. Throughout a
busy life as a doctor h® found time for the study of Scottish life and
folklore, on which subject h« was an acknowledged authority, and also
published many articles and poems in the lighter vein. For some years he was
joint Editor of Caledonian Medical Journal and contributed copiously to that
paper as well as to the Edinburgh Medical Journal and the British Medical
Journal-He is best known to folklorists as the author of Folklore of the
Mining Folk of Fife which contained many interesting items of folk-medicine
and was published as an appendix to County Folk Lore, Vol. VII (Fife,
Clackmannan and Kinross-shire). Folklore Society, 19U, collected by Mr. J.
E. Simpkins. Dr. Rorie’s lighter articles also contain many references to
northern country life and customs and his name stands high as an
enthusiastic collector and editor of Scottish folklore. He served in the
R.A.M.C. during the war of 1914-18, attained the rank of Colonel and was
awarded the D.S.O. and Chev. Legion of Honour. He was a well known authority
on many subjects but especially on public health and other medical matters,
relating to Scotland.
L. F. Newman
The Auld Doctor
And other Poems and Songs in Scots by David Rorie, M.D. (1921) (pdf)
A Medico's Luck in the War
Being Reminiscences of R.A.M.C. Work with the 51st Highland Division by
David Robie, D.S O., T.D., M.D., D.P.H., Colonel late R.A.M.C., T.A. (Ret.);
Officer of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem; Chevalier de la Légion
f'Honneur; formerly O.C. 1/2nd Highland Field Ambulance, and later A.D.M.S
51st Highland Division, B.E.F. (1929) (pdf)
Examples
of Printed Folk-Lore
Concerning Fife with some notes on Clackmannan and Kinross-Shires collected
by John Ewart Simpkins with an Introduction by Robert Craig MacLagan, M.D.
author of The Games of Argyllshire^, The Evil Eye in the Western Highlands,
etc., and an Appendix from MS. Collections by David Rorie, M.D. (1914) (pdf) |
