Teaching and Demonstrating
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One of the ways of alluding to the wider medical community in prints
of individual practitioners was by portraying the sitter engaged
in the act of teaching or demonstrating.
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Edinburgh was one of the major centres for medical education across
Europe in this period. The foundation of the Royal College of
Surgeons in 1505, and the Royal College of Physicians in 1681,
set the stage for the foundation of the Medical School in 1726,
in which the Fellows of the RCPE played an important role. In 1729,
the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh was opened as a teaching facility. With the
additional establishment of the Royal Medical Society, a student
society, in 1737, Edinburgh
came to be one of the most renowned cities for medical education.
Edinburgh-educated medical practitioners travelled Britain and
Europe making reputations for themselves as renowned and talented
professionals, such as the Hunter brothers.
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