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Exhibitions
The RCPE Library has mounted a number of exhibitions in recent years.
These exhibitions, which serve to present valuable works from our Collection,
were initially linked to RCPE educational symposia. More recently, the
RCPE Library has started to mount exhibitions of wider interest to the
public as part of the Sibbald Library Project which
seeks to increase public access to our Collection. If you would like
to be added to our mailing list for details about forthcoming RCPE Library
exhibitions please e-mail library@rcpe.ac.uk
Current Exhibitions
The Bindings of a Venetian Edition of Avicenna
text published in 1555 and index published in 1557
These books, once owned by the botanist & physician Adam Lonicer, are now in the Sibbald Library, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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150 Years
of Membership
At
the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, we are delighted
to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the introduction of membership
in 1861.
We
have gathered both historical memoribilia and current statistics
about the membership examination as it was, and as it is now, to
commemorate this milestone.
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Sir James Young Simpson's Last Illness
During Simpson’s last illness, his nephew, Robert Simpson,
spent many hours at his bedside. In 2008, a diary containing notes
made by Robert Simpson during those weeks was discovered and is
now in the archives of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
The notes are published here for the first time.
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College Engravings
The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh owns
a six volume collection of 652 prints compiled by the College in
the Nineteenth Century. The collection is primarily comprised of
early modern engraved portraits of medical practitioners.
This
exhibition contains a selection of thirty portraits accompanied
by a brief description, which focuses on the artistic representation
of medical professionals and the medical profession.
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William Hunter 1718 - 1783
Anatomia Uteri Humani Gravidi ... the anatomy of the human pregnant
uterus ..... 1774
William Smellie 1697 - 1763
Anatomical Tables ... and abridgment of the practice of midwifery,
1792
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Basil Besler, Hortus Eystettensis, Eichstatt, 1640
This online exhibition contains images from one of the greatest
botanical picture books ever created. Basil Besler created
the a work to record the plants in the garden of the Archbishopric
of Eichstätt in Bavaria. The book is arranged by seasons and
there are 367 unusually large plates illustrating more than a thousand
specimens.
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Previous Exhibitions
Print and Medicine
The RCPE Library mounted an exhibition on ‘Print and medicine’ as
part of wider celebrations to mark 500 years of printing in Scotland.
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Plants and print
An RCPE exhibition showcasing source materials used in Victoria
Crowe’s Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition in 2007 on Plant
Memory.
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