John Charles Hall was born in Nottingham in 1816 and received his medical degree from the University of Erlangen on 27 June 1840. He settled in Sheffield, teaching in the School of Medicine and serving as physician to the dispensary and house surgeon at St George's Hospital. Hall successfully campaigned for the establishment of a hospital attached to the dispensary and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 1 May 1848. He died in 1876.

Charles Radclyffe Hall was born in Congleton, Cheshire, in 1820 and graduated MD from the University of Erlangen on 16 February 1848. After early hospital work in Manchester, he practised in Bristol and later Torquay, serving hospitals for consumption and reduced gentlewomen. Hall published on bronchial physiology, became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 1 August 1848 and died in 1879.

Edward Waters received his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh on 1 August 1847 and served as physician to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He published on fever and gunshot wounds, was active in medical reform and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 1 August 1848. Waters chaired the Medical Reform Committee in 1870 and died in November 1890.

George Skene Keith was born on 11 March 1819, the son of Alexander Keith, minister of St Cyrus' Free Church. He received his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh on 2 August 1841 and was the elder brother of the ovariotomist Thomas Keith. His publications include 'A Plea for a Simpler Life' (1895) and 'Fads of an Old Physician' (1897). Keith became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 4 February 1845 and died on 12 January 1910.

William Bowie was born in 1793 in Demerara, South America. He graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh on 12 September 1812, submitting a dissertation on asthma. Bowie became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1815 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 6 May 1845. He died on 2 July 1864.

Neville Wood received his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh on 1 August 1844. Initially an orthodox physician, he later converted to homeopathy and served as physician to the Brompton and Chelsea Homeopathic Dispensaries. Wood translated Carl George Christian Hartlaub's 'The Child's Homeopathic Physician' and authored several works on homeopathy. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 6 May 1845 and died in 1890.

Alexander Peddie, the son of an Edinburgh minister, was educated at Edinburgh High School and encouraged into medicine by Dr John Abercrombie. Apprenticed in 1830 to James Syme of Minto House, he later studied in Paris and introduced the stethoscope to Edinburgh on his return.

Benjamin North Arnold received his medical degree from the University of Giessen on 6 April 1840. He became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1838 and was admitted as a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 27 May 1845.

Thomas Smith Maccall received his medical degree from the University of St Andrews on 27 April 1838. He served as assistant surgeon to the Queen's Edinburgh Light Infantry Militia, surgeon to the cholera hospital in Musselburgh from 1832, and senior medical attendant at Greenock Hospital and Dispensary from 1849. Maccall became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 27 May 1845 and served as President of the Hunterian Medical Society of Edinburgh.

Thomas Hughes received his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh on 1 August 1825 and was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 5 August 1845.