We're excited to tell you our collections are now online! Search, browse & download from 3000 digitised photographs & manuscripts, 16th-20th century. We'll continue to upload more collections so do keep checking back! #histmed #WDPD2018

RT @RCSEdArchive: 📣JOB ALERT 📣 The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh has a vacancy for a Project Records Assistant, which will give ex….

📣JOB ALERT 📣 The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh has a vacancy for a Project Records Assistant, which will give experience of both Archives & Records Management. Closing date on 22 Aug. Come join the Heritage team!

RT @surgeonshall: The latest episode of Beyond the Knife has dropped!. In this episode, Steven Kerr, the Librarian @RCSEdArchive, discusses….

RT @RCSEd: Dr Clare McNaught has been elected as the new President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Dr McNaught will become t….

This is our 1st edition of William Harvey’s ‘Exercitatio Anatomica De Motu Cordis…’, published in 1628, and often cited as the most important book in the history of medicine. Harvey was the first to recognize the full circulation of the blood in the human body #NationalBloodWeek

Apparently it's Sherlock Holmes Day so of course we have to share the real Sherlock, Edinburgh surgeon and @RCSEd President, Joseph Bell! Here he is with some letters from his former pupil, Arthur Conan Doyle that confirm Bell as inspiration for Doyle's literary detective.

On International Day of the Midwife explore our digital exhibition 'In Safe Hands: The Battle for Midwifery', on the history of midwifery and obstetrics and Edinburgh's contribution to the development of the profession.

It's #NationalUnicornDay! The mythical 'horse of healing' is the symbol of @rcsed & favourite heraldic animal of James IV who ratified our Royal Charter in 1506. In 1652 Nicolaes Tulp described a sea-unicorn now known to be a narwhal. Its tusk was mistaken for a unicorn horn

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RT @surgeonshall: We’re breaking from our usual release schedule to bring you a special episode for International Women’s Day! . In this ep….

RT @RCSEd: Just two weeks to go until @RCSEdArchive host their 'Treasures of the Library' event. Attendees will have the opportunity to vie….

We're ridiculously excited to have acquired the archive of surgeon Helen McMillan, who became the third female Fellow @RCSEd in 1921. Her collection is a #WomenInSurgery treasure trove of photographs, letters, diaries & artwork. Just in time for #InternationalWomensDay!

This is quite exciting. We have a receipt dated 1772 for the original John's Coffeehouse for an order made by members of the Society of Barbers, which came to five pounds, five shillings!

By strange coincidence our Library & Archive Assistant happens to be holidaying in Florence today (we're not jealous)! He's just sent us this lovely image of Paulo Mascagni’s statue at the Uffizi Gallery. No sign of one for Antommarchi, so looks like Paulo got the last laugh!

RT @surgeonshall: College Librarian Steven Kerr looks at the origins and legacy of the most famous medical textbook of all time - “Anatomy:….

Join us 15 May for a lecture by Tom Wood on the Ruxton case and why its known as the first modern murder. Tom is the former Deputy Chief Constable and Director of Operation for Lothian and Borders Police. There's still some tickets left but not many!

In 1826, Mascagni having died some years earlier, Antommarchi – his pupil and collaborator - published it under his own name, together with an introductory essay. Today we have the book on permanent display in the College Library.

In 1831 Antommarchi went to Poland and became the general inspector of Polish hospitals. He assisted the Polish people in an uprising against the Russians then fled to Paris to escape the Czar's forces, later settling in Cuba where he died of yellow fever in 1838

Antommarchi also went on to serve as physician to Napoleon Bonaparte, and after Napoleon's death, Antommarchi wrote ‘The Last Moments of Napoleon’, concluding that Napoleon died of stomach cancer