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Weekend's over, time to put your best foot forward! #MondayMotivation

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In 1880 Florence Nightingale wrote to the real Sherlock Holmes, Dr Joseph Bell thanking him "for all he has done...for the cause of Trained Nursing". Bell wrote nursing manuals and introduced the first training course for nurses in Scotland at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary #histnursing

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It may not look exciting but inside is #histmed treasure! Diary of Isaac Williamson who trained in midwifery in Edinburgh & Dublin in the 1760s. Records dissection & clinical classes, labours and a side-hustle selling apothecary wares. Digitised 👇 archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk/special-coll...?

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Join @rcsedlibandarchive.bsky.social for the chance to view some of their rare collections. They will be exhibiting some of the oldest items in their collection, including a 1460 "Book of Hours". Learn more: https://bit.ly/4hCv2tq

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Letters sent home to America from Edinburgh by a medical student in the 1930s. He writes of his first dissection class at Surgeons' Hall, the Royal Infirmary’s “beautiful amphitheatre”, and also meeting his first love. #EYALove #ExploreYourArchive

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Our Collections Officer, Danielle Dray, explores the history of the Royal Army Dental Corps in this new blog. You can read it here: https://buff.ly/3CPJ4IX

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John Hunter, Scottish surgeon and anatomist was born #OTD 1728. This amazing illustration is taken from Hunter's Natural History of the Human Teeth (c.1771). #histmed

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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🧪👩‍🔬

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Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh, 1895, Lilian Murray became the first female dentist to qualify in the UK. She initially tried to enrol at the London Dental School but was refused entry to the building in case she distracted male students & was interviewed on the pavement instead! #InternationalDentistDay

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Sketches of two Edinburgh pioneers, obstetrician James Young Simpson & his nemesis, the surgeon James Syme (drawn by Simpson's son Walter). Captioned: "Professor S as he appeared when tearing into the valuable pamphlet [by Simpson] on the acupressure", and "Sir JYS when he heard the awful news"

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Scottish man-midwife and “mechanical genius” William Smellie was born #OTD 1740. Smellie developed and modified obstetrical forceps to enable safer delivery techniques for the mother and also “to avoid this loss of children which gave me great uneasiness"

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Bringing you some colour on a dreich February day, albeit some poisonous and hallucinogenic plants! From a 19thc domestic medicine guide, these illustrations include Poisonous Lettuce, Monk's Hood, Purple Foxglove, Fool's Parsley, Fly Mushroom & Deadly Nightshade.

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As a welcome gift, please enjoy this delicate illustration from our collection by Irish medical illustrator, surgeon, & anatomist Joseph Maclise (1815-1880). Published in "Maclise’s Surgical Anatomy" in 1851, it shows the arterial supply of the spinal cord, coloured in red.

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Eighteenth century wax model showing the omentum - the ‘fatty apron’ that covers our abdominal organs

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We love this fire insurance plan from 1906, which shows some of the local Edinburgh shops and businesses around Surgeons' Hall, Hill Square and The Pleasance. #InternationalMapDay

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#OnThisDay 1913, William Macewen, became an Honorary Fellow of our College. Macewen pioneered brain, bone, aseptic surgery & much more! He performed the world’s 1st successful brain tumour operation in 1879. Find out more about this amazing man in our exhibition heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/exhibits/sho...

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Our podcast "Beyond the Knife" has launched! Join @anatomicalcat.bsky.social as we learn about the history of anatomical studies and the importance of dissection in teaching and discovery. Available from wherever you get your podcasts! museum.rcsed.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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They heard it was the end of Dry January, actually.

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Medical students outside the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 1912 #WomenInMedicine #histmed

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If you've been along Lothian Road this may look familiar to you. This is a model of the watchtower found in St Cuthbert's churchyard. The watchtower was built in 1827 in an attempt to deter the resurrection men. The building was restored in 1990 and is now used as office space.

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Do follow @historicdunkeld.bsky.social. They have a lovely community archive centre & museum, in a very pretty part of the country too! 👇

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Can't even suck the monkey any more, the world's gone mad.

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The murderer William Burke was hanged in Edinburgh OTD 1829. A student, Thomas Hume was part of the huge crowd on the Lawnmarket that day & left a rare eyewitness account, which is digitised here (also with a great blog by @burkeandhare.bsky.social). archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk/special-coll...

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“We were kept prisoners of the Gestapo”. On #HolocaustMemorialDay find out how the Scottish Royal Medical Colleges tried to offer a lifeline to students attempting to flee Nazi Europe, and explore their stories rcsedlibraryandarchive.wordpress.com/2017/01/27/i...

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In this new blog series our Senior Research Fellow, Professor Ken Donaldson, explores the toxicology of fashion. In the first part of the series, he explores the dangers long skirts posed in the 19th century. surgeonshallmuseums.wordpress.com/2025/01/24/f... Image via Wikimedia Commons.

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Woodcut illustration from Cerebri Anatome (c.1664) by Thomas Willis, father of #neuroscience who was born #OnThisDay 1621. The term #neurology first appears in this book. #histmed

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Welcome new followers (thanks @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social)! To ease you in gently, please enjoy some 16th century surgical instruments. #NoAnaesthesia

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"One of the world’s largest Holocaust archives is accessible online for the first time after a three-year digitisation of much of the collection... the Wiener Holocaust Library’s new online platform includes more than 150,000 items collected over nine decades" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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If you have a few minutes to squander on informal learning, check out this cracking digital exhibition about the medicalization of childbirth.

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We have guinea worms in @surgeonshall.bsky.social’s collections, and people always squirm when I show them. But… thanks to an extensive public education campaign Guinea worm disease (aka Dracunculiasis) is almost eradicated, with only 13 cases in 2022 (having been endemic in 20 countries in the 80s)

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A surgeon extracting guinea worms from a patient’s leg by winding it onto a stick. From a work by the German surgeon Georg Hieronymus Welsch published in 1674, which was heavily influenced by Arabic medical texts

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In light of #StormEowyn the wider College campus will also be closed tomorrow, including the Library & Archive. However we will be available remotely to answer your enquiries ([email protected]).

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I'm sharing this, so I may peruse it more closely later 😊

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For #NationalHandwritingDay here's proof that doctors don't have terrible handwriting! This beautifully handwritten letter (c.1735) diagnoses a patient with breast cancer, a “disorder rarely hitherto known to yield to any milder remedy than the knife”.

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It's #NationalHandwritingDay so good luck reading this letter.🧐

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Preparing medicines at the Islington Medical Mission Dispensary, London, 1893 (from the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society Archive) #histmed

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Keyhole surgery on old books leads to discovery of medieval fragments 📜 phys.org/news/2025-01...

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