James Campbell obtained his MD from the University of St Andrews in 1712. He became physician to the Garrison at Port Mahon in 1718 and was made physician-in-ordinary to King George II in Scotland. In 1718, he was made a fellow of the Royal Society and in 1724 he was made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He died on 21 January 1733.

William Fullerton was born in Argyll in 1692 and began studying medicine at Leiden University in 1717. He received his MD from Oxford in 1728. He was a physician at Christ’s Hospital, London. He died on 12 March 1737.

George Martine was born in Claremont, St Andrews in 1700 to James Martine and Margaret McGill. He studied at St Andrews, Edinburgh and Leiden, obtaining his MD from the University of St Andrews in 1722. From 1725-1728, he ran a medical school in the basement rooms at Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh with William Graeme. Upon its closure, he returned to St. Andrews to practise as a physician until 1739. He then moved to London, where he became physician to Lord Cathcart in his expedition to the West Indies in December 1739. He was interested in thermometry, becoming the first person to use the principles of differential thermal analysis. He died in Cartagena in 1741.

Also recorded as George Martine.

David Balfour's admittance as Honorary Fellow to the College notes him as a physician in Kirkcaldy. It is possible that he is the son of Michael Balfour, 4th Baronet of Denmiln, as some sources list a Dr David Balfour of Kirkcaldy as one of his descendants. There are conflicting sources as to the dates of birth and death of this David Balfour, with some stating he was born around 1680 and died in 1763, whilst others list him as being born in 1695 and dying in 1751.

John Johnstoun was appointed Professor of Medicine at the University of Glasgow in 1714, the first to hold the chair since it lapsed in 1646. He resigned the post in 1749. Little else is known about him.

Thomas Simson was born in Kirktonhall, Ayrshire in 1696 to John Simson and Agnes Simson. He was awarded an MD in Glasgow in 1720 and in 1722 was appointed as the first medical professor at the University of St Andrews, a post he held until his death. Some of his works include 'De re medica' (1726), 'De erroribus circa materiam medicam' (1726), 'System of the Womb' (1729) and 'Enquiry on the Vital and Animal Actions' (1752). He died in 1764.

Richard Mead was born at Worcester House, Middlesex in 1673 to Matthew Meade and Elizabeth Walton. He studied classics at the University of Utrecht before studying medicine at Leiden, leaving in 1695 without completing his degree. He received his MD later that year in Padua. He began a medical practice in London the following year, without a licence from the Royal College of Physicians of London. Mead began work as a physician to St Thomas’s Hospital in 1703 and was also appointed as a reader in anatomy by the London Company of Barber–Surgeons. He joined the council of the Royal Society in 1705. He was additionally a major collector of books and antiquities, which were auctioned off after his death over a period of 56 days. Mead died in 1754.

James Mackenzie was born around 1682. He studied medicine in Edinburgh and Leiden before obtaining his MD from King’s College, Aberdeen in 1719. Mackenzie practiced medicine in Worcester and acted as an attending physician to the Worcester Infirmary from its establishment in 1745 until his retirement in 1751. He died in Warwickshire on 7 August 1761.

John Huxham was born around 1692 in Harberton, Devon to a butcher. He studied medicine at Leiden before obtaining his MD from Rheims in 1717. Huxham became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1739. His most significant work was 'An Essay on Fevers and their Various Kinds', published in 1750. He died in Plymouth in 1768.

Gerard van Swieten was born in Leiden in 1700 to Thomas van Swieten and Elisabeth Loo. He studied at Leiden University under Herman Boerhaave, whose clinical teachings he later published across five volumes. In 1745, he became the personal physician to Austrian Empress Maria Therese, who aimed to update the medical knowledge within the empire. He led a number of reforms at the University of Vienna which improved its delivery of medical education. He died in Vienna in 1772.