Walter Ernest Dixon

Who was Walter Ernest Dixon?

Walter Ernest Dixon FRS was a British pharmacologist.

He was born in Darlington, County Durham and educated at school in Darlington and at Dulwich, gaining a Science Entrance Scholarship to St. Thomas's Hospital in 1890. He later obtained degrees from both London University and Cambridge University.

He became a house physician and then a Demonstrator at St. Thomas's in the Department of Physiology. He was also appointed to Lecturership in Pharmacology at Cambridge University, where he resided, going up to London to King's College, London to deliver his lectures, where he held the post of Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacology. In 1919 he was appointed Reader in Pharmacology at Cambridge.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1911. His candidacy citation read: "Professor of Pharmacology. Distinguished as a pharmacologist. Professor of Pharmacology, King's College, London. Assistant to the Downing Professor of Medicine, Cambridge. Author of 'A Manual of Pharmacology'; articles in Allbutt's 'System of Medicine,' and Hale White's 'Pharmacology.' 'The Action of the Alkaloids from 'Anhalonium Lewinii; 'The Action of some New Preparations from 'Cannabis Indica'; 'The Action of Poehl's Spermine'; 'The Action of Indian Podophyllin'; 'The Composition and Action of Orchitic Extracts'; 'The Innervation of the Testis'; 'The Innervation of the Frog's Stomach'; 'Hypodermic Purgatives'; 'The Bronchial Muscles'; 'Action of Drugs on Nerve cells and Nerve endings with special reference to Apocodeine'; 'Vaso-motor Nerve to the Lung'; 'The Selective Action of Cocaine on Nerve Fibres'; 'The Clioscribe'; 'The Pathology of Asthma'; 'The Bio-chemical Standardisation of Drugs'; 'The Bio-chemical Standardisation of Drugs'; 'Drug Fallacies'; 'The Mode of Action of Drugs'; 'A Delicate Volume Recorder'; 'The Gaseous Metabolism of the Mammalian Heart'; 'The Action of Alcohol on the Circulation'; 'The Action of Placental Extract'."