RT @RCPmuseum: On 12 August join the @rcphysicians, @RCPSGheritage & @RCPEHeritage heritage teams in a virtual discussion to share early ar….

RT @surgeonshall: Join us and @RCPSGheritage to discover how art and medicine come together in this special online panel exploring portrait….

RT @MoMcEl: Since last year the @RCPSGheritage team and all @rcpsglasgow have been celebrating all things Macewen. This exhibition is ongoi….

RT @outlanderherbal: Today I went to meet an online friend that I have known for sometime now, but never met in person. I finally got to me….

RT @MurphyNiallGLA: For the Blythswood Festival, I’m giving a talk @rcpsglasgow on Sir JJ Burnet, one of #Glasgow’s greatest architects. Hi….

RT @MurphyNiallGLA: The great #Glasgow architect Sir JJ Burnet was responsible for some of our city’s greatest buildings 👀👇😮! But… how did….

RT @ColourHeritage: Did you know in 1854 Asyri Bey from Egypt registered as a Medical student @EdinburghUni? Wuzeer Baig was the 1st first….

We are now on Bluesky, come and say hi!. #HappyInternationalWomensDay2025.

Are you a South Asian medical practitioner in Scotland? Monique Lerpiniere is a PhD student at @UniStrathclyde working with the @rcpsglasgow. Please contact Monique on monique.lerpiniere.2022@uni.strath.ac.uk and share with anyone who might be interested.

RT @rcpsglasgow: We send our very best wishes to our Members, colleagues and friends observing the holy month of Ramadan. .

⚠️Due to a red weather warning tomorrow (24/01/25) our library, archive and museum will be closed to all visitors. Staff will be online to answer queries and you can still explore our collections on our website at any time #StormEowyn

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”.

Happy #LibraryShelfieDay! 📚.We love this photo of our Lower Library - this was the original working library of the College when we moved to our premises on St Vincent Street in 1862. Many of the books in this room date from that period and cover all aspects of medicine & surgery

Visit our latest exhibition celebrating William Macewen, one of the greatest surgeons of his time with an amazing lasting legacy. He pioneered asepsis and bone surgery, performed the first successful brain tumour operation & so much more!

RT @is_glasgow: A plaque marking the townhouse where Joseph Lister lived between 1860 and 1869, while he was the Professor of Surgery at Gl….

Catgut ligatures prepared with juniper oil and preserved in alcohol. Manufactured by John McMillan, Chemist, Glasgow c.1929

RT @rcpsglasgow: We're upgrading our phone system today (Thursday 16 January) which means our phone lines will be down for a short period t….

Illustration of the common carotid artery taken from A System of the Anatomy of the Human Body (c.1814) by Andrew Fyfe. Fyfe was a Scottish anatomist and was appointed dissector to Alexander Monro (secundus) at the University of Edinburgh. #anatomy #histmed

RT @FriendsofGRI: We are opening tomorrow for a special event #musicinthegri with the fabulous @cchaimbeulmusic & @76scotta 🎶.130pm for app….