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The beginnings of the Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis are inextricably tied up with the founding of the College...

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were, for medicine, notable for their great plurality.  There were all...

The Sibbald Library is one of ten partners participating in the UK Medical Heritage Library. The UKMHL is an...

The College had twenty-one original Fellows (the most senior level of associate) when it was formed in 1681.

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The College decided by the 1880s that as well as focussing on regulation of the profession, they should also...

Part of the role of the College has always been to regulate the medical profession, to discipline minor infractions...

As part of the cataloguing of our archive collections, and in commemoration of the centenary of the First World War...

This drawing, from the mid 19th century, comes from a volume titled ‘A Collection of Original...

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