Keyword search: The Foundation of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital 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... Read more What is Melancholy? 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... Read more False Imprisonment in the Asylum Fear of false imprisonment was a growing concern in eighteenth century Britain. Private madhouses, where the inmates were paying customers, were particularly susceptible because there was little oversight of... Read more Mental Health: The Douche, the Swing and the Chair These illustrations, take from a study by Belgian physician Joseph Guislain, show examples of some of the new methods of mental health treatment developed in the 1800s. ... Read more Recipes for Madness and Melancholy John Moncrief, The poor man's physician (1731) This book, authored by church minister John Moncrief, is a compilation of the recipes of numerous physicians and folk-healers. It was... Read more William Blacklock: Placing Patient Art in Mental Health These sketches and letters are the work of William Blacklock, created after he was admitted to the Crichton asylum in Dumfries. Blacklock was born in London in 1816 and,... Read more The Bruised Reeds of Patient Art The original source of the phrase ‘bruised reeds’ is Biblical, referring to the kindness of Jesus… He will not quarrel or cry aloud, nor will anyone hear his... Read more Spitting Blood: Tuberculosis, Past and Present ‘Captain of all these Men of Death’, the Great White Plague’ – the public fear of this great killer is clear from the many names which have been ascribed... Read more The Scottish Women’s Hospital at Royaumont The Royaumont Newsletter Digitisation INTRODUCTION Panel on the Royaumont women in the Scottish Diaspora Tapestry 1918 marked the end of the First World War and the enfranchisement of some British women. As... Read more 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 Pagination Previous page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Current page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Next page
