Biography
Sir Robert Muir was one of the most influential British pathologists of the twentieth century. Trained in Edinburgh, he held the Chair of Pathology at the University of Glasgow for nearly four decades (1899–1936), where he built a school of morbid anatomy and experimental pathology that shaped the discipline in Britain. His early immunological papers on complement and bacterial inflammation helped define how laboratory science fed clinical teaching. Arnold published his Textbook of Pathology in 1924, a single-author synthesis that linked the gross and microscopic changes of disease to their underlying biological mechanisms; the book was adopted internationally and has been continuously revised—first by Muir himself, then by successive generations of editors—for more than seventy-five years. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and knighted in 1934 for services to medicine.
Published writings & editorial work
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Authored / principal writer
- Muir's Textbook of Pathology
The foundational British pathology text, 1924 to the present day
First published 1924 · 14th edition (under Hodder Arnold) · Edward Arnold / Hodder Arnold
Founding author; sole author of editions 1–5 (1924–1950)
A single-volume textbook of pathology that binds the gross and microscopic changes of disease to their underlying biological mechanisms. First written as a solo work by Sir Robert Muir in 1924 and continuously revised ever since — first by Muir, then by a succession of British…