I was recently asked by The Public Domain Review if I would revisit and revise my previous Book of the Month article on this fascinating 18th Century hoax, with a view to publishing it in their April edition. The article is… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘medical history’
16th century view of the brain
Special Collections have just lent a 16th century painting to the Wellcome Trust for an exhibition all about the Brain. The painting shows the human nervous system and is one of a set of 12 anatomical tables commissioned by the surgeon and author John Banister (c 1540-c… Read More ›
Lords of the Flies
A newspaper article on the Natural History Museum’s forensic entomologists on their role in solving murders revealed that the Museum holds the Ruxton maggots, vital evidence in one of the most celebrated murder cases of the 20th century that convicted… Read More ›
Starring in the Seven Ages of Britain (link to footage added)
I blogged earlier in the year about a visit to the University by David Dimbleby and a BBC television crew who came to film some of William Hunter’s books, manuscripts and anatomical specimens for the “Seven Ages of Britain” series…. Read More ›
A life in medicine – The story of William Cullen (1710-1790) and John Thomson (1765-1846)
William Cullen was a chemist and physician, as well as a noted teacher of medicine. He gave lectures in the theory and practice of physic at the University of Glasgow, and was appointed Professor of Medicine in 1751. John Thomson… Read More ›
Now on display in the Hunterian Museum
Last week we changed over the Library books that are on display in the Hunterian Museum as part of the Hunter: man, medic and collector exhibition. As usual, the two books now on exhibition are from William Hunter’s magnificent 18th… Read More ›
Special Collections August book of the month
Is not so much a book as a collection of documents (letters, pamphlets and satirical prints) relating to the infamous case of Mary Toft, a woman who claimed to have given birth to rabbits. A notorious 18th century medical hoax,… Read More ›
Stars of the Show
We are asked fairly regularly if items from Special Collections can be used in television programmes. Recently, the BBC filmed some of the beautiful 18th century red chalk drawings and engravings that William Hunter commissioned for his great work The… Read More ›
Dame Anne Louise McIlroy -UK’s First Women Medical Professor
A new book , Lab Coats and Lace, the lives and legacies of inspiring Irish women scientists and pioneers, edited by Mary Mulvihill, features Glasgow University graduate Dame Anne Louise McIlroy (1874-1968). After graduation with a MD in 1900, she went on… Read More ›
Greenock medical martyrs of 1864–65
A new piece of research into the 1864 typhus outbreak in Greenock has been published online in the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 2009:39: 173-8, based on research undertaken in the Archives of the University of… Read More ›
