Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
The College was founded by 1599 by Peter Lowe, a Scottish surgeon who had practised for a number of years in France. On his return from Scotland, he was so horrified at the state of medical practice in Glasgow that he petitioned King James VI to be allowed to establish a regulatory body to ensure maintenance of medical standards in Glasgow and its surrounding area. Today the College continues its role in maintaining the highest possible medical standards through post graduate examinations and training. The administrative records of College date from 1602, the beginning of the first minute book. The minutes run with just one gap (from 1688-1733 when a minute book was lost in a fire) up until the present day.
The majority of material relating to College dates from the 19th and 20th Centuries and includes examination registers, papers of College committees and records relating to property including plans of College Hall designed by J. Burnet in 1892. There is a large collection of photographs containing portraits of many 19th Century Members and Fellows as well as covering more recent events.
Apart from the administrative records of the College there are also deposited collections relating to former (and present) Members and Fellows of the College. These include the papers of Sir William Macewen (1848-1924) and Joseph Lister (1857-1932). The papers of Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932) constitute one of the largest collections. There are also several collections relating to Glasgow and West of Scotland medical societies.
Special feature: Tuberculosis
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- Account of D-Day landing, 1944
- An oral history of Glasgow Medicine School, compiled by Dr Peter McKenzie, (1914-1994) and Dr Mary McKenzie
- Articles, caricatures and photographs collected by Dr Andrew J. Hutton (1884-1972), surgeon
- Book celebrating 90th Birthday of Donald Buchanan Brown (1910-2006), consultant surgeon
- Caledonian Medical Society
- Cartoon of operating theatre
- Collection of items relating to the Glasgow Eye Infirmary
- Collection of lantern slides of scenery from Scotland, Scandinavia, Canada, the UK and elsewhere, 1903-1914
- Dilpomas awarded to Professor Thomas Cyril White, (1911-1980), orthodontist
- Files and Papers of Professor Iain Thomson Boyle (1935-2001), physician
- Glasgow University Medical School's contribution to East Africa
- Glass negatives, photographs and stereoscopic prints by Dr William Herbert Brown (1878-1959)
- Items relating to Dr Ian Robb MacIntyre, general practitioner
- Items relating to the Epsilon Club collected by Dr William M.C. Sillar, (1914-1976) surgeon
- Lantern slides collected by Professor William A. Mackay, (1906-1991), surgeon
- Obstetrics collection of Dr James Willocks
- Papers and photographs of Dr Alexander Dale (1901-1964), Superintendent Mearnskirk Hospital, and Dr Elizabeth Dale (b. 1906)
- Papers and photographs of Sir Thomas James Thomson, physician and gastro-enterologist
- Papers and photographs relating to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary
- Papers of Dr Adam Brown Kelly (1866-1941), laryngologist, and Dr Herbert Derek Brown Kelly, ENT surgeon
- Papers of Dr Archibald Lamont Goodall (1915-1963), surgeon
- Papers of Dr Arthur H. Jacob (1899-1974), urologist
- Papers of Dr Constance Anne Cameron Ross, microbiologist
- Papers of Dr David McLean, (1902-1985), general practitioner.
- Papers of Dr Duncan J.B. Fletcher (1922-1995), public health physician
- Papers of Dr Gavin Shaw, (1919- ), cardiologist
- Papers of Dr James Finlayson (1840-1906), physician
- Papers of Dr James Hogarth Pringle, (1863-1941), surgeon
- Papers of Dr John Alexander Thomson, (1933- ), physician
- Papers of Dr John Buchanan Barr (d.2003), general practitioner
- Papers of Dr John Burns (1815-1910)
- Papers of Dr John Campbell (1792-1873)
- Papers of Dr John Kennedy, surgeon
- Papers of Dr John Knight Davidson, radiologist, and newspaper cuttings relating to the Health Care International Hospital, Clydebank, 1987-2002.
- Papers of Dr John MacKinlay (d.1998), obstetrician and gynaecologist
- Papers of Dr John Reissberg Wolfe, (c. 1824-1904), ophthalmologist
- Papers of Dr Joseph Lister, first Baron Lister of Lyme Regis (1827-1912), founder of antiseptic surgery
- Papers of Dr Robert Leishman (fl. 1932-1963), ophthalmologist
- Papers of Dr Thomas Kay (1868-1938), surgeon
- Papers of Dr William Brown
- Papers of Dr William Mackenzie (1791-1868), opthalmologist
- Papers of Dr. Arthur Maclennan Sutherland, (1909-2000), obstetrician and gynaecologist
- Papers of John Marshall Cowan and items relating to the Cowan family of Glasgow.
- Papers of John Thompson Murray, (b.1909), dentist
- Papers of Mr Ian Alexander McGregor, (1921-1998), plastic surgeon
- Papers of Mr Roy Miller, ENT surgeon
- Papers of Mrs Margaret W. Menzies Campbell (1893-1990), dentist
- Papers of Professor Irvine J. Selikoff, (1925-1992), doctor and medical researcher
- Papers of Professor James Hendry (1886-1945), obstetrician and gynaecologist
- Papers of Professor Thomas Gibson (1915-1993), plastic surgeon.
- Papers of Samuel Lovell Davidson (1912-1999), paediatric surgeon
- Papers of Sir Alexander Macgregor, (1881-1965), Medical Officer of Health for Glasgow
- Papers of Sir Andrew Watt Kay, (b. 1916)
- Papers of Sir Hector Clare Cameron (1843-1928)
- Papers of Sir Ronald Ross, (1857-1932), surgeon
- Papers of Sir William Macewen, (1848-1924), surgeon
- Papers of William Barr Stirling, (1914-1988), surgeon
- Papers of William Clift (1775-1849), naturalist
- Papers relating to Dr Henry Faulds (1843-1930)
- Photocopy of a poem by O. H. Mavor and Walter Elliot c.1914
- Photograph album compiled by Gr Chalmers of a microscope presented to David Livingstone by Angela G. Burdett Coutts in 1858.
- Photograph album relating to the Scottish Women's Hospital in Salonika, 1907-1918.
- Photograph of Fellows of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 1925
- Photograph of Fellows of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 1925
- Photographic portrait of Sir John W. McNee, (1887-1984), Professor of Medicine.
- Photographic slides and match cards relating to the Western Infirmary Golf Club
- Photographs and papers of Professor William Watson Buchanan
- Photographs of Dr Roy Frew Young, (1879-1948), surgeon
- Photographs relating to Norman Burns, a patient at Mearnskirk Hospital
- Photographs taken by Dr Elma Douglas, opthalmologist
- Photographs, postcards, and stamps collected by Dr Matthew M. Garrey, obstetrician and gynaecologist
- Records of St Mungo's College
- Records of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Medical Association
- Records of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Society of Anaesthetists
- Records of the Glasgow Faculty of Medicine
- Records of the Glasgow Medical Society
- Records of the Glasgow Medico-Chirurgical Society
- Records of the Glasgow Northern Medical Society
- Records of the Glasgow Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society
- Records of the Glasgow Odontological Society
- Records of the Glasgow Pathological and Clinical Society
- Records of the Glasgow Southern Medical Society
- Records of the Greenock Medical and Chirurgical Association
- Records of the Ladies' Guild of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund, Glasgow Branch
- Records of the Partick and District Medical Society
- Records of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
- Records of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow
- Records of the Scottish Society of Physicians
- Records of the X-Club
- Student notebooks of Dr James Ferguson Boyd, pathologist
- Student notes taken from Dr Robert Watt's lectures, 1812
- Video recording of the life of Dr Maud Perry Menzies, 1985
- Young family papers
