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Keiller was appointed his Prosector and subsequently his Demon- 
strator ; and while here he made, and superintended the drawings of, 
a large series of dissections for a work on Regional Anatomy. 
After Dr Knox retired we find Dr Keiller, in conjunction with 
the late Dr Skae, lecturing on Anatomy on his own account. During 
his student days, however, a new subject had been brought under 
his notice, which was destined to form the special study of his future 
life. Dr John M Jntosh was then lecturing with much acceptance 
on Midwifery, and his pupil, and afterwards class assistant, Keiller 
became ; and in this post, and at a Dispensary which Dr MJntosh 
opened and left almost entirely to his assistant’s care, he had an 
excellent opportunity of acquiring a knowledge of those subjects of 
which in later life he became the able exponent, and in the suc- 
cessful prosecution of which he gained his laurels. 
In 1835 he took his degree of M.D. at St Andrews University, 
and afterwards became one of its examiners in Medicine ; and in 
1886, as a mark of their appreciation of his merits, the Senatus 
conferred on him the honorary title of LL.D. 
After having lectured on Anatomy for two years in Edinburgh, 
he went to Dundee, and, following in the footsteps of Dr M Jntosh, 
he took part in establishing and conducting a Medical and Surgical 
Dispensary there, and gave special attention to that department of it 
which related to Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and 
Children. 
Having laboured for seven years at Dundee, he was induced to 
return to Edinburgh by the urgent request of his friends, and not- 
ably by Professor (afterwards Sir James) Simpson, with whom he 
was on terms of the greatest intimacy. On his return, in addition 
to general practice, he commenced lecturing on Materia Medica, 
and subsequently took up the subject of Medical Jurisprudence; and 
ultimately in 1853, on the death of Dr Campbell, who had been 
Lecturer on Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children 
in connection with the Royal College of Surgeons, Dr Keiller was 
appointed to that honourable post, and to that special department 
he afterwards almost exclusively devoted himself. 
The mere recital of these subjects on which Dr Keiller gave his 
prelections shows very clearly his extensive acquaintance with 
various branches of Medical Science, and the amount of collateral 
