Keyword search: Ian Donald – Diagnostician and Moralist To cite this article: Malcolm Nicolson, 'Ian Donald, Diagnostician and Moralist', online publication, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (2000) The population of Scotland is divided into two halves.... Read more The Great Divide: The Policy and Practice of Abortion in 1960s Scotland To cite this article: Gayle Davis, ‘The Great Divide: The Policy and Practice of Abortion in 1960s Scotland’, online publication, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (2005) This paper... Read more NHS 70 and the Western General Hospital Hospitals established by local authorities and charities for the relief of the poor existed long before the NHS was founded. These hospitals adapted, however, to changing circumstances and widened... Read more Sir Alexander Morison’s The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases Sir Alexander Morison (1779-1866) was an early forensic psychiatrist who specialised in mental and cerebral illness. After studying at Edinburgh’s Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh, he... Read more Morton’s Medical Bibliography bibliography, n. A list of the books of a particular author, printer, or country, or of those dealing with any particular theme; the literature of a subject. “Have... Read more The History of Germ Theory in the College Collections Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 bc) De re rustica Venice, 1514 The idea that certain diseases were caused by minute living creatures invisible to the human eye goes back more than... Read more The History of Cancer in the College Collections Galen (130–200 ad) De tumoribus praeter naturam Basle, 1542 Galen considered neoplasms to be due to an excess of black bile, which solidified in certain parts of the body. In... Read more Care of the Elderly in the College Collections Tancred Robinson (d. 1748) A letter giving an account of one Henry Jenkins a Yorkshire Man who attained the age of 169 years London, 1696 Dr Tancred Robinson was a... Read more The James Young Simpson Diary A lost diary which was discovered in a charity bookshop in Edinburgh is now part of the College Library. It describes the last days of one of the most... Read more Marginalia in Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy (1821) Having recently spent some weeks investigating the Royal College of Physician’s of Edinburgh’s copies of Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy, I was delighted to find some lovely examples... Read more Paediatrics in the College Collections Thomas Phayer (ca.1510-1560) The boke of chyldren London, 1553 Thomas Phayer was a physician, lawyer and poet. The boke of chyldren was first published in 1545, and was... Read more Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy “The work now restored to public notice has had an extraordinary fate. At the time of its original publication it obtained a great celebrity, which continued more than... Read more Pagination Previous page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Current page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Next page
