Keyword search: College Fellows: Curing Scurvy and Discovering Nitrogen The College had twenty-one original Fellows (the most senior level of associate) when it was formed in 1681. College Fellowship served a very practical purpose – you needed to... Read more The College Laboratory: Research and Diagnosis The College decided by the 1880s that as well as focussing on regulation of the profession, they should also pursue a stronger line in research. By 1887 they had... Read more Disciplining Physicians: Frauds, Quackery, and Miracle Whirling Spray Part of the role of the College has always been to regulate the medical profession, to discipline minor infractions and work to keep out the unscrupulous and unethical – by... Read more Doctors on the Front Line: Commemorating the Scottish Doctors of WWI As part of the cataloguing of our archive collections, and in commemoration of the centenary of the First World War, the College has created an online searchable database of the Scottish Medical... Read more Jonathan Martin - On Mental Diseases and Arsony This drawing, from the mid 19th century, comes from a volume titled ‘A Collection of Original drawings by Roshard, A Johnson, Gow etc made to illustrate the works of... Read more The Science of Sherlock Holmes Joseph Bell is probably best known as the model for Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle worked as Bell’s clerk at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, where he witnessed... Read more Pagination Previous page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Current page 9
