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Some Papers Read 1993-2011

  • 'History of Haemophilia'
  • 'History of Tobacco Control'
  • Friars and Medicine
  • History of Oncology
  • History of Bioterrorism
  • Apocryphal Tobit and the Truth: Couching for Cataracts in Antiquity
  • Peter Lowe: Founder of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Man of Mystery
  • The Polish School of Medicine in Edinburgh
  • Roentgen’s Rays and his Scottish Disciples
  • History of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Edinburgh
  • Sir Robert Philip: Pioneer of Tuberculosis Treatment
  • Mandrake
  • How Medical Rhubarb came to Scotland
  • Robert Burns, an Ayrshire Lad
  • The Phrenologists and Robert Burns
  • The Rise of British Hepatology
  • Before Chiron: Healing in the Prehistoric Aegean
  • Medical Forecasting in Antiquity and Now: the Same or Different?
  • Traditional Medicines of the Highlands and Islands
  • Prof J J MacLeod’s Researches into the source of Insulin
  • The Women of Royaumont: A Scottish Women’s Hospital on the Western Front
  • Drs Lesley Diack and David Smith 'Dr Ian MacQueen and the Aberdeen typhoid outbrteak of 1964; a variety of perspectives'
  • Dr SWS Menzies 'Thomas Winterbottom and the welfare of miners'
  • Haldane Tait Lecture: Sir Alexander Macara 'Our unique health service, past, present, and future'
  • Dr David Boyd 'History of medicine in Caithness'
  • Dr Ken Mills 'The Franklin disaster'
  • Dr John Cule 'A decided novelty for the British army.....'
  • Mr Roy Miller 'A minister's brilliant progeny'
  • Dr DC Watt 'LR Penrose and the Eugenic Society
  • Dr Bryan Ashworth 'Alfred Nobel and the Medical Prizes'
  • Dr Andrew Doig 'The Contribution of the Academic Gregorys to Medicine and Science'
  • Dr Henry Noble 'Tooth Transplants'
  • Dr Ernest Jellinek 'The Russell Family'
  • Dr John Blair 'Liked it or loathed it, we all served'
  • Dr Jeffrey Millar 'Early days of Opthalmology in Edinburgh'
  • Dr David Wright 'Leeches - past and present'
  • Dr Ian Gregg 'Millipedes and Medicine'
  • Dr David Wright 'Natural Products used in Anaesthesia'
  • Dr Michael Williams 'Duft House and the treatment of diabetes'
  • Dr Rufus Ross 'Doc Holiday, gun tottin' dentist of the West'
  • Professor Anthony Seaton 'History of occupational lung diseases'
  • Dr AR Butler 'Lyon Playfair and Edward Jenner: a St Andrews story'
  • Professor Matthew Kaufman 'Medicinal education in 18th and 19th century Edinburgh'
  • Mr Roy Miller 'The man who saw his own voice'
  • Professor Hugh MacDougall 'A Short History of Oncology'
  • Dr Angela Martford 'Healing friars'
  • Professor Alasdair Geddes 'A history of bioterrorism'
  • Professor Charles Forbes 'History of haemophilia'
  • Professor James Friend 'History of tobacco legislation'
  • Mrs Susan McCann 'History of nursing'
  • Dr David Hamilton 'Gland grafting, monkeys and other donors'
  • Dr Magnus Magnusson 'Viking Healers'
  • Dr David Sinclair 'History of early surgery'
  • Dr Libby Wilson 'Sex and the NHS'
  • Professor Dugald Gardiner 'Peace and war: the five lives of Henry Wade'
  • Miss Christine Short 'God and Cod: Grenfell in Labrador'
  • Dr Iona McCleery 'Medicine and medieval miracles'
  • Professor Elizabeth Craik 'Hippocratic medicine'
  • Professor Sir Kenneth Calman 'History of cartoons in medicine'
  • Professor Ian Paxton 'The decline of St Kilda'
  • Dr Anges Walker 'History of Highland medicine'
  • Dr Niall Finlayson 'Harvey's world'
  • Mr Roy Miller 'The fatal illness of Frederick the Noble'
  • Haldane Tait Lecture: Mr John Chalmers 'Disputes amongst Edinburgh doctors in the 19th century'
  • Iain Donaldson 'Three literary physician-anatomists in 16th century Paris'
  • Iain MacIntyre 'Suffrage, surgery and SWH: Elsie Inglis 1864-1917'
  • Haldane Tait Lecture: Prof Hugh Pennington 'Listerism, its reception in Glasgow, Aberdeen, Copenhagen and Diorpat.'
  • Dr David Boyd 'Straying from the path; Scottish doctors involved in politics.'
  • Dr Gregory Kenicer 'Scottish Vernacular Medicine: A Botanical Perspective'
  • Dr Hector Chawla 'Nelson's Eye'
  • Dr Michael Dunnill 'Sir Almroth Wright, the Plato of Praed Street.'
  • Dr George Gordon 'Did he cut for Tubercle? A detective story.'
  • Dr Hugh Brewster 'Dumfries was the first place in Great Britain where ether was administered, a historical curiosity.'
  • Dr Francis Toolis 'A tale of two surgeons.'