Supported by: Stuart McMillan*, Colin Beattie*, Bill Kidd*, Richard Lyle*, David Torrance*, Annabelle Ewing* *S5M-21832 Kenneth Gibson: 165th Anniversary of Birth of David Bruce, Pathologist and Microbiologist—That the Parliament commemorates the 165th anniversary of the birth of David Bruce, pathologist and microbiologist, who was born on 29 May 1855, grew up in Stirling and died on 27 November 1931; understands that Bruce initially began an apprenticeship in 1869 but pneumonia forced him to abandon this and he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh from 1876; is aware that, after a brief period as a general practitioner, he joined the Army Medical Service and was posted to Malta on military duty, where he found the hospitals full of patients suffering from a mysterious complaint, which sometimes resembled typhoid fever and sometimes malaria known as Malta or undulant fever; is aware that, within two years, Bruce had discovered its cause, Micrococcus melitensis, now known as Brucella after him; notes that, posted to South Africa, Bruce also identified the causative protozoan and tsetse fly vector, of African Trypanosoma brucei, known as "sleeping sickness”; recognises that Bruce served on the Army Medical Service Advisory Board from 1902 to 1911 and in 1914 became Commander...