Keyword search: 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 Sir Sydney Smith and the Development of Police Forensic Laboratories Sir Sydney Smith (1883-1969) was one of the pre-eminent medico-legal specialists of his day. As a leading forensic pathologist, Professor of Forensic Medicine and Dean of the Faculty of... Read more George Cleghorn: The Surgeon-Anatomist George Cleghorn (1716-1789), medical pioneer and gifted surgeon-anatomist, was born in Granton, just outside Edinburgh, on the 18 December 1716. Cleghorn was the son of a farmer and the... Read more Blood Pressure in the College Collections William Harvey (1578-1657) Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus Frankfurt, 1628 Harvey’s De motu cordis is generally regarded to be the most important single... Read more Understanding the Liver in the College Collections Galen (ca. 130-200) Opera omnia Basle, 1542 Next to Hippocrates, Galen is regarded as the most important physician of antiquity. For over a thousand years his writings were considered authoritative... Read more Blood Types in the College Collections Plato (428-347 BC) Opera omnia Basle, 1551 The earliest writings about blood clotting are found in the works of the Greek philosophers of the 4th century BC. Plato described... Read more Pagination Previous page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Current page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Next page
