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)…

William Henry Playfair’s Architectural Plans of RCSEd, Nicolson Street

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

William Henry Playfair’s Architectural Plans of RCSEd, Nicolson Street

As part of a Wellcome Trust project, we recently digitised thousands of our early manuscripts which we have been uploading to view through our online catalogue. While the majority of these manuscripts span the 16th-18th centuries, we have also digitised our 1830s architectural plans of the current RCSEd building on Nicolson Street.…

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.…

RCSEd Archive Catalogue

Tags: Edinburgh, Elsie Inglis, Extramural Teaching, Lothian Surgical Audit, Medical Students, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Edinburgh, Society of Barbers, Surgeons, Surgeons' Hall Museums, Surgery, TQ, Wellcome Trust

RCSEd Archive Catalogue

We are delighted to announce that the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Institutional Archive is now available to researchers, with thousands of records now digitally available for the first time, and catalogued to item-level.…