Keyword search: Hereditary Physicians in Celtic Medicine By the Middle Ages, Celtic social life was primarily organised on the clan system of lineage-based groups owning and occupying a particular territory. Clansmen were usually kinsmen of their... Read more The Eighteenth Century Dispensary Movement The College is undertaking a project to catalogue, digitise and make available online our collection of the patient records of Edinburgh's Public Dispensary, established in 1776. To put this... Read more New Acquisition: Medico-Chirurgical Club The club had its origins in 1822, in a contest for the position of physician at Edinburgh's New Town Dispensary. At that time individuals were selected for the position... Read more A History of Aviation Medicine Robert Boyle (1627-1691) New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring of the air, and its effects. Oxford: H. Hall for Tho: Robinson, 1662 Physicist, physiologist, chemist, and philosopher, Boyle was one... Read more Post Mortem on Napoleon Bonaparte This surprising find was amongst the correspondence of John Abercrombie. Abercrombie was a popular doctor in early 19th century Edinburgh. His private means gave him the opportunity to pursue... Read more Elizabeth Blackwell: Prison, Plotting and the Curious Herbal Elizabeth Blachrie was the daughter of a wealthy stocking merchant in Aberdeen. Her second cousin Alexander Blackwell was the son of Thomas Blackwell, Professor of Divinity at Marischal College,... Read more Gymnastics and Acrobatics as Medical Therapeutics The physical benefits of exercise have been known since antiquity. Medics and others have written widely on the advantages, both physical and mental, of gymnastics, acrobatics and other bodily... Read more Scots Abroad: Medical Influences in the 18th Century There were a number of ways in which Scottish medicine at this time was distinctly different from that of England and elsewhere in Europe. In Edinburgh, the infirmary maintained close ties with... Read more 'This vile custome': A History of Tobacco's Medical Interpretations Many plants contain nicotine but those commonly cultivated for tobacco are indigenous to America. The first clear description of tobacco smoking was made by Captain Jacques Cartier during his... Read more The Physician's Cane: Use and Meaning Traditionally canes and physicians have had a close association. In Greek mythology the deity Asclepius, who was associated with medicine and health, wielded a rod with a serpent wound... Read more Scientific Portraiture: Accoutrements as Props and Symbols Most of the portraits we hold include specific objects and visual references that relate to the careers of the medical practitioners (and other scientific professionals) that they depict. Many... Read more Fashion and the Physician: How Clothing Made the Man In his biography of John Baron, Joseph Pettigrew quotes Baron’s description of his first meeting with Edward Jenner in 1808: ‘he was dressed in a blue coat, nankeen breeches... Read more Pagination Previous page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Current page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Next page
