Surgeons’ Apprentices: Bodysnatching and other Immoral Behaviour in 18th-Century Edinburgh

Tags: Anatomists, Apothecaries, Apprentices, Bodysnatching, Edinburgh, Surgeons, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Medical Students, Incorporation of Barber Surgeons

Surgeons’ Apprentices: Bodysnatching and other Immoral Behaviour in 18th-Century Edinburgh

‘That each Apprentice who should be convicted of raising or attempting to raise the dead from their graves should forfeit their Freedom, and all privilege competent to them by their indentures and be extruded their Master’s Service’ (Act of the Surgeon Apothecaries, April 17, 1725)…

Preserving and modelling the body: technique in anatomical practice and visual arts at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1700-1850

Tags: Anatomists, Artists, Edinburgh, RCSEd Institutional Archive, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Surgeons, Surgeons' Hall Museums

Preserving and modelling the body: technique in anatomical practice and visual arts at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1700-1850

Our guest blog post is from Marieke Hendriksen, a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University. Marieke will be joining us in October here at the RCSEd Library and Archive on a Wellcome Trust Research Bursary.…

"Jealousy p'raps": Henry Gray, Henry Vandyke Carter and Gray's Anatomy

Tags: Anatomists, Anatomy, Dissection, Medical Illustration, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Surgeons

"Jealousy p'raps": Henry Gray, Henry Vandyke Carter and Gray's Anatomy

In the 1940s we received a partial set of first edition final page proofs of Gray’s Anatomy bearing the corrections made by its author Henry Gray (1827-61). This set of Wertheimer proofs, complete with ink splodges, are a particular delight not just for historians of medicine or book publishing, but also those interested in the relationship between Henry Gray and medical illustrator Henry Vandyke Carter (1831-97).…

The Beauty of Anatomy

Tags: Anatomy, Anatomists, Beauty of Anatomy

The Beauty of Anatomy

We’ve been greatly enjoying the BBC4 series The Beauty of Anatomy, examining the relationship between anatomical discoveries and works of art that illustrate them, which has prompted us to explore some of our own anatomical atlases collection.…