Keyword search: Deadly Nightshade: A Botanical Biography This post was written in relation to the College’s Physicians' Flowers exhibition. Deadly Nightshade - Atropa belladonna Atropa belladonna is more commonly known as the deadly nightshade and... Read more Botany and the Senses This post was written in relation to the College’s Physicians' Flowers exhibition. Botany through the senses Being surrounded by nature, wandering through a garden or a forest, can be... Read more John Richmond: Life's Jigsaw John Richmond was a distinguished physician who held several high offices in medicine: Professor and Dean of the medical school at the University of Sheffield, Senior Censor and Vice-President... Read more Ronald Girdwood: Travels with a Stethoscope Ronald Haxton Girdwood achieved much during his career in Academic Medicine. A graduate of Edinburgh University Medical School in 1939, he was Professor of Therapeutics at the Royal Infirmary of... Read more E B Jamieson: Anatomist & Shetlander Edward Bald Jamieson, who enjoys a singular place in the history of the Edinburgh Medical School, was born in 1876 and died in 1956. Due to his complex character,... Read more Rheumatism in the College Collections Williband Pirckheimer (1470-1530) The praise of the gout, or, the gouts apologie London, 1617 This rare volume was translated into English by William Est from the 1522 Latin original by... Read more Shellshock in the College Collections Major Arthur Hurst Medical diseases of war 1940, 2nd ed. Soon after the beginning of WWI, military doctors noticed that soldiers started to show neurological symptoms like dizziness, tremor, tinnitus,... Read more Syphilis in the College Collections Girolamo Fracastoro (1478-1533) Della sifilide di Girolamo Fracastoro Veronese a Pietro Bembo libri tre Verona, 1739 Girolamo Fracastaro was a Veronese doctor whose medical poem Syphilus sive morbus gallicus gave... Read more Alchemy in the College Collections Alchemists believed that the codes and puzzles contained in these texts mapped out a way to transform base metals like tin and lead into gold. According to... Read more New Donation: WW2 Internment Camp Records This month we have received a donation of an exciting collection to the archive: the notes of Dr. D. B. Cater, Head Officer for the Public Health Organisation at... Read more Moonstruck: An Exploration of Love and Madness Adapted from a Presentation to the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh In mythology the moon relates not just to madness, but to love. And that’s very convenient from my... Read more The Foundation of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital On the 8th June 1809, the foundation stone of the then-named Royal Edinburgh Asylum was laid in the hospital grounds at Morningside, marking a turning point in the history... Read more Pagination Previous page Page 1 Page 2 Current page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Next page