Volume 55: Issue 2: 2025
The skulls of two students of African descent in the University of Edinburgh’s Anatomical Museum
Women who qualified as doctors in the United Kingdom, 1877–1914: Birthplaces, parentage and training
Exhibition: Hooked: 500 Years of addiction
Volume 55: Issue 1: 2025
The historical evolution of smallpox treatment in Japan visualised through Japanese artwork and woodblock prints
Exhibition: Wild & Tame: Animals in History
Volume 54: Issue 4: 2024
James (Carrick) Moore (1763–1860): Another (Scottish) Local Anaesthetic Hero
A physical directory
Volume 54: Issue 3: 2024
Exhibition: Wild & Tame: Animals in history
Volume 54: Issue 1: 2024
‘This wretched state’: Robert Burns’s illness and the daybook of Charles Fleeming
RCPE Podcasts
Exhibition: Remote and Rural Remedies exhibition
Volume 53: Issue 4: 2023
La Valentine disease: An outbreak of exanthematic typhus in Marseille, France, in 1810
Exhibition: After life: A history of death
Volume 53: Issue 3: 2023
Climate Change Archive
Volume 53: Issue 2: 2023
The take-off of Drosophila research in 1930–1950s Edinburgh
A month in the country: The sesquicentenary of David Ferrier’s classical cerebral localisation researches of 1873
Past and present: Sir Ian Hill (1904–1982). A vignette
Virtual Walking Tour
Volume 53: Issue 1: 2023
The story of Freud’s patient Anna von Lieben – as told by Anna von Lieben
Virtual Walking Tour
Volume 52: Issue 4: 2022
The ties between food and medicine in early modern Scottish recipe books
Skin disease and military conflicts: Lessons from the Crimean War (1854–56)
Book Notice: Senior Fellows Club, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Medical Lives: Memories and Musings
Volume 52: Issue 2: 2022
Thrombosis in Scotland, 1800–1960
Dr Robert Knox and his book on fishing in Scotland: A window into his mind
Volume 52: Issue 1: 2022
The recognition of lung disease in coal workers: The role of Gough–Wentworth whole lung sections
Milestone house: The story of a hospice for people with HIV/AIDS
Volume 51: Issue 4: 2021
“A bruised reed shall he not break”: John Miles’s portraits of patients at the Royal Edinburgh Asylum. Part 2.
Volume 51: Issue 3: 2021
Editorial: The miracle of insulin
My cheek puff sign: Bell’s palsy, Charles Bell and Dr Robert Knox
“A bruised reed shall he not break”: John Miles’s portraits of patients at the Royal Edinburgh Asylum. Part 1.
Volume 51: Issue 2: 2021
The birth of British geriatric medicine and its struggle for survival as a medical specialty
Time to take care: fighting HIV with health promotion in Edinburgh, 1983–1996
Volume 51: Issue 1: 2021
Editorial: Fifty years of the College Journal: a fascinating journey
Practice and power: the rise and disappearance of the Franzosenärzte, or doctors of the French pox, in Nuremberg, 1495–1560
Professor Hugh MacLean: one of the first British military research nephrologists and the pioneer of the first United Kingdom veterans’ renal clinic
Volume 50: Issue 4: 2020
Hurst Rehabilitated: the treatment of functional motor disorders by Arthur Hurst during the First World War
The Scottish Scurvy Epidemic of 1847
Volume 50: Issue 3: 2020
History of the West of Scotland Haemophilia Centre, Glasgow, 1950–2019
Volume 50: Issue 2: 2020
John Goodsir and local opposition to Rudolf Virchow’s election to Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1868
Hydrology, rheumatology, and rehabilitation: the campaigning of Fortescue Fox
Hippocrates in Queen Street
Volume 50: Issue 1: 2020
Three poisonous plants (Oenanthe, Cicuta and Anamirta) that antagonise the effect of γ-aminobutyric acid in human brain
Volume 49: Issue 4: 2019
A history of Stoke Mandeville Hospital and the National Spinal Injuries Centre
A novel approach to the history of medicine: a look at the relationship between fiction and medical history
Volume 49: Issue 3: 2019
Dr James Riley, pioneer in histamine and mast cell studies
The Mary Walker effect: Mary Broadfoot Walker
John Gillies (1895–1976)
Volume 49: Issue 2: 2019
The humane society movement and the transnational exchange of medical knowledge in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
Black lungs in the general population: a new look at an old dispute
Volume 49: Issue 1: 2019
Petr Skrabanek: the abominable no-man
Neurosurgery in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary c. 1920–c. 1940: knowledge, skills and styles
Was Thomas Wharton Jones FRS, assistant to the infamous Dr Knox, the first to recognise the blood eosinophil?
Sir Patrick Manson at home: 21 Queen Anne Street as a hybrid space
Volume 48: Issue 4: 2018
Sir Alexander Morison and The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases: Part 2
Michael Oliver (1925–2015)
Murder in the archives: additions to the Sydney Smith Collection
Liquorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra): the journey of the sweet root from Mesopotamia to England
Volume 48: Issue 3: 2018
The last apothecary: Eric Knott (1896–1993) and 20th-century pharmacy in Scotland
George Riddoch (1888–1947): the driving force behind the treatment of spinal injuries in the UK during the Second World War
Sir Alexander Morison and The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases: Part 1
Volume 48: Issue 2: 2018
Collectors of natural knowledge: the Edinburgh Medical Society and the associational culture of Scotland and the North Atlantic world in the 18th Century
Mood disorder in the personal correspondence of Robert Burns: testing a novel interdisciplinary approach
The origins of sport for disabled people
Witnessing history: a personal view of half a century in public health
Volume 48: Issue 1: 2018
A brief look at the history of the Deaconess Hospital, Edinburgh, 1894–1990
Amanita muscaria (fly agaric): from a shamanistic hallucinogen to the search for acetylcholine