Andreae Vesalii invictissimi Caroli V Imperatoris Medici Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica, 1725
1905 Illuminated congratulatory manuscript presented by the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society
Playfair Building ground floor plans 1908
John Griffith Roberts certificate signed by Charles Bell 1872
Detail of 15th Century Book of Hours
Highlights from the RCSEd historical records.
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.…
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.…
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 Society of Barbers archive (1722-1922) has now been catalogued and is available on the Archives Hub. The preservation and cataloguing of the archive was made possible through generous funding from the Wellcome Trust.…
Following from last year’s International Women’s Day blog on scientist Mabel Purefoy Fitzgerald this year’s is following a similar pattern of raising awareness of lesser-known women whose research…