Physicians' Gallery Blog

This post was written in relation to the College’s Physicians' Flowers exhibition. Botany through the senses Being surrounded by nature, wandering through a garden or a forest, can be...

John Richmond was a distinguished physician who held several high offices in medicine: Professor and Dean of the medical school at the University of Sheffield, Senior Censor and Vice-President...

Ronald Haxton Girdwood achieved much during his career in Academic Medicine. A graduate of Edinburgh University Medical School in 1939, he was Professor of Therapeutics at the Royal Infirmary of...

Edward Bald Jamieson, who enjoys a singular place in the history of the Edinburgh Medical School, was born in 1876 and died in 1956. Due to his complex character,...

Williband Pirckheimer (1470-1530) The praise of the gout, or, the gouts apologie London, 1617 This rare volume was translated into English by William Est from the 1522 Latin original by...

Major Arthur Hurst Medical diseases of war 1940, 2nd ed. Soon after the beginning of WWI, military doctors noticed that soldiers started to show neurological symptoms like dizziness, tremor, tinnitus,...

Girolamo Fracastoro  (1478-1533) Della sifilide di Girolamo Fracastoro Veronese a Pietro Bembo libri tre Verona, 1739 Girolamo Fracastaro was a Veronese doctor whose medical poem Syphilus sive morbus gallicus gave...

Alchemists believed that the codes and puzzles contained in these texts mapped out a way to transform base metals like tin and lead into gold.   According to...

This month we have received a donation of an exciting collection to the archive: the notes of Dr. D. B. Cater, Head Officer for the Public Health Organisation at...

Adapted from a Presentation to the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh In mythology the moon relates not just to madness, but to love. And that’s very convenient from my...

On the 8th June 1809, the foundation stone of the then-named Royal Edinburgh Asylum was laid in the hospital grounds at Morningside, marking a turning point in the history...

The word melancholy literally means an excess of choler, or black bile. The Humours Its origins lie within the humoural system, which dates back to at least the time...