| Birth Date: | 19 October 1846 |
| Birth Place: | Keig, Marr, Aberdeenshire[1] |
| Death Place: | Harley Street, London |
| Nationality: | British |
| Occupation: | Physician |
| Known For: | Materia Medica and Therapeutics (1884); notes as attending physician during Benjamin Disraeli's final illness[2] |
John Mitchell Bruce (1846–1929) was a British physician, pathologist, and physiologist.[3] [4]
After education at Aberdeen Grammar School, J. Mitchell Bruce matriculated at the University of Aberdeen, where he graduated MA in 1866. He studied medicine at the Middlesex Hospital, graduating MB (Lond.) in 1870. He undertook postgraduate study in pathology at Vienna and at London's Brown Animal Sanatory Institution under John Burdon-Sanderson and Edward Emanuel Klein. Bruce briefly held a junior appointment at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary before he was appointed in 1871 lecturer in physiology at Charing Cross Hospital. There he became in 1873 assistant physician, in 1882 full physician, and in 1904 consulting physician upon his retirement. He relinquished his physiological lectureship in 1877, taught materia medica from 1877 to 1890, and medicine from 1890 to 1901.[3]
Bruce was dean of the Charing Cross Hospital Medical School from 1883 to 1890.[3] He was physician to Royal Brompton Hospital for twenty years.[1]
Bruce was married and had one son.[1]