Joseph Dougall received his medical training in Edinburgh and entered the Indian Medical Service in 1859, his first posting being to Madras. He subsequently served at Singapore, Visakhapatnam, Rajahmundry and in Myanmar. During furlough from 1870 to 1872 he obtained his MD from Edinburgh. In January 1873 he was appointed Acting Senior Medical Officer to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a post made permanent in 1876. He oversaw the medical care of thousands of prisoners and conducted experimental treatment of leprosy using gurjun oil. As Secretary to the Photographic Society, he was noted for his use of photography in clinical practice. He died of typhoid in the Andaman Islands on 9 February 1879.

William Henry Brace became a Licentiate of the College in 1860 and a Fellow in 1867. He obtained his MD from St Andrews in the same year, having also studied at King's College, London. He was appointed Surgeon to the Royal United Hospital, Bath, and served as Consulting Physician to several institutions in Bath and Somerset, including the Bath Puerperal Charity and the Royal School for Daughters of Officers of the Army, Lansdown.

David James Brakenridge was born in Edinburgh in 1839 and obtained his MD from Edinburgh in 1863. He held numerous posts in the city, including at the New Town Dispensary, the Royal Hospital for Sick Children and the Chalmers Hospital. He served as Assistant Physician and later Physician to the Royal Infirmary. During this period he published work on the use of sulpho carbonates in infectious diseases. His other publications include 'Transfusion of human blood in the treatment of pernicious anaemia', published in the Edinburgh Medical Journal in 1892, and 'A new and portable form of spray producer', published in the Medical Times and Gazette in 1868. He died at 10 St Colme Street, Edinburgh, on 10 July 1895.

Allan Dalzell was born in 1821 in Madras, India, where his father was serving in the Army. He initially followed his father into service in both the Army and Navy until 1846, after which he returned to the family home in Edinburgh. He obtained his MD from Edinburgh in 1853 but did not pursue a medical career, instead becoming a lecturer in practical chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. He was later appointed Professor of Chemistry and Materia Medica at the Royal Dick Veterinary College, Edinburgh. He died in Edinburgh on 29 July 1869.

Thomas Hardie obtained his MD from Edinburgh in 1853 and became a Fellow of the College in 1867. He worked as Resident Clinical Assistant at the Brompton Hospital, London, before returning to Edinburgh to practise as Physician at the Leith Hospital and Dispensary. He spent most of his career at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, where he served first as Resident Physician and later as Resident Surgeon.

John Steward received his medical training at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, London, before moving to Wolverhampton, where he spent much of his professional life. He founded the town's Eye and Ear Infirmary and served as its Consulting Surgeon for twenty four years. His publications include 'An essay on the formation or proximate cause of sound', which was read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1829. He died in Birmingham on 3 August 1880.

Thomas Alexander Goldie Balfour was born in Edinburgh, the son of Andrew Balfour, a surgeon in the Twenty Fifth Regiment and later printer of the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His brother, John Hutton Balfour, became a noted botanist. After initially studying for the ministry, he obtained his MD from Edinburgh in 1851 and later worked as Acting Physician at the House of Refuge, Queensberry Lodge, Edinburgh. A member of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society, he published extensively on religious matters in relation to science. His medical publications include 'Observations on foetal malformations', published in the Edinburgh Medical Journal in 1861, and 'On congenital diaphragmatic hernia', published in the Edinburgh Medical Journal in 1869. He died in Edinburgh on 10 March 1895.

Griffith Richard Jenkins became a Licentiate of the College in 1867 and a Fellow in 1869. He worked for a period at the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn Road, London, but spent much of his career as a surgeon in the Royal Navy and was later attached to the British legation in Japan. In April 1863 he founded the Yokohama Public Hospital, the forerunner of the modern International Goodwill Hospital, and in 1864 he co-founded, with William Willis, the first pharmacy in Yokohama.

Angus Macdonald was born in Aberdeen in 1836. Despite an impoverished upbringing, which required him to work as a labourer during university vacations, he graduated MA from King's College, Aberdeen, in 1859 and subsequently obtained his MD from Edinburgh in 1864. After completing his studies, Macdonald established a practice in Edinburgh and lectured in the city's extramural school and at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He published 'The bearings of chronic heart disease on pregnancy' in 1878. With an increasing focus on obstetrics, he was appointed Physician to the Royal Maternity Hospital. He died in Edinburgh in 1886.

Thomas Richard Fraser was born in Calcutta and graduated MD from Edinburgh in 1862. He was awarded a Gold Medal for his thesis on the actions and therapeutic use of the ordeal bean of Calabar, Physostigma venenosum. He was appointed Assistant to Sir Robert Christison in the materia medica department of the University of Edinburgh. In 1870 he became Lecturer on Materia Medica in the extramural school and served as Assistant Physician to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh from 1869 to 1874.