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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

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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


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