Keyword search: The Cullen Project: Digitising Medical History This project, carried out in collaboration with the University of Glasgow, has created an online digital edition of the medical correspondence of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790). Cullen was the... Read more William Cullen - Physician, Author, Teacher and Innovator Cullen was born in 1710 (the second son in a family of seven children). His first schooling was in Hamilton where his father was the factor of the Duke... Read more Smoking in the 17th Century: 'Youths-bane' Letters in our archive show that it's been at least 400 years since doctors began discussing the harmful effects of smoking, particularly on young people. One doctor in the... Read more Ripley's Alchemical Scrolls The alchemical scrolls which are associated with George Ripley are unusual manuscripts which illustrate the pursuit of the Philosophers' Stone. Ripley was a canon of Bridlington in Yorkshire who... Read more The RCPE Sculpture Collection: History and Aesthetics The RCPE possesses an impressive collection of 72 sculptures, the majority of which are in a neoclassical style and date from the nineteenth century. Most of the pieces appear... Read more A Manual for Medicine: The Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia The beginnings of the Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis are inextricably tied up with the founding of the College itself. What was it for? Before the existence of the Pharmacopoeia, there were... Read more Medical Treatment for the Poor: The Dispensary The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were, for medicine, notable for their great plurality. There were all kinds of treatments on offer – healers, quacks, wise women, and itinerant sellers... Read more College Fellows: Curing Scurvy and Discovering Nitrogen The College had twenty-one original Fellows (the most senior level of associate) when it was formed in 1681. College Fellowship served a very practical purpose – you needed to... Read more The College Laboratory: Research and Diagnosis The College decided by the 1880s that as well as focussing on regulation of the profession, they should also pursue a stronger line in research. By 1887 they had... Read more Disciplining Physicians: Frauds, Quackery, and Miracle Whirling Spray Part of the role of the College has always been to regulate the medical profession, to discipline minor infractions and work to keep out the unscrupulous and unethical – by... Read more Doctors on the Front Line: Commemorating the Scottish Doctors of WWI As part of the cataloguing of our archive collections, and in commemoration of the centenary of the First World War, the College has created an online searchable database of the Scottish Medical... Read more Jonathan Martin - On Mental Diseases and Arsony This drawing, from the mid 19th century, comes from a volume titled ‘A Collection of Original drawings by Roshard, A Johnson, Gow etc made to illustrate the works of... Read more Pagination Previous page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Current page 8 Page 9 Next page
