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RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social · 1d

👇 There are just a few tickets remaining for our tours on the 20th and 27th.

RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social · 13d

Join us on an journey through the College as we celebrate Black History Month. Hear stories of groundbreaking doctors, scientists and scholars and learn about our ongoing research into our history and connections to empire and colonialism
📆 1, 20, 27 October 2025
🎫 heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/events

External view of our College - a Georgian style building set over three floors

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Scottish Museums Federation @scottishmuseums.bsky.social · 5d

It’s #ScottishMuseumsDay! 🎉

This year’s theme is #MightyObjects – the biggest, tallest, heaviest & most surprising treasures in Scotland’s collections.

Head out, explore museums near & far, and share your monumental finds today! 🏛️✨

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RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social · 5d

Daemonologie: A King's Obsession with Witches 🧙‍♀️

Join us and author Steve Veerapen, for an intriguing evening exploring how a king's paranoia stoked the fear that the devil was stalking early 17th Century Scotland!

📆Thursday 30 October 2025
🕙7pm GMT
🎫£10

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/daemonolog...

Title page from King James VI & I's book on Daemonologie

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Glasgow Centre for Population Health @thegcph.bsky.social · 5d

Important in public health history is @uofgshw.bsky.social's James McCune Smith, the first African American to obtain a medical degree. He had a long career as a respected medical doctor, writer, civil rights advocate & welfare campaigner for patients at Glasgow's infamous Lock hospital #BHM25

Portrait of James McCune Smith & Quote: McCune Smith’s legacy is a reminder of the importance of representation in medicine and public health. His advocacy for patient welfare and social justice remains relevant today, as certain communities continue to face barriers to accessing equitable healthcare and are underrepresented in medical leadership and research.

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Teresa Doherty @dohertyta.bsky.social · 6d

#BlackHistoryMonth #HistNursing

We often think of black nurses in Britain as being post-Windrush, but researchers are identifying earlier #women

Like this amazing story of Sarah Woodbine #Victorian born #BuenosAires Trained Nurse #Croydon & #HitherGreen 💙

www.historycalroots.com/sarah-woodbi...

Sarah Woodbine: A Black Nurse in Victorian Britain

You can read the full story of Sarah Woodbine (so far as it is known at the moment) in our recent book Sarah Woodbine - A Black Nurse in Victorian Britain. Co-authored by David Gleave, Neasa Roughan a...

www.historycalroots.com

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RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social · 6d

Born #OnthisDay 1857, physician and Fellow of our College John Macintyre. Macintyre established the world's first radiology department for patients at Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1896.

Pencil sketch of Macintyre who is wearing a shirt, jacket and tie and has a bushy mustache

Photo of the radiology department at Glasgow Royal Infirmary c.1910

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RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social · 7d

Elements of Phrenology (1824) by George Combe, Scottish Lawyer and leading figure in the phrenological movement, a popular pseudoscience in the 1800s. The illustration shows the phrenological organs and their positions and qualities including love, wonder, and intellect.

Page from a book showing a phrenology head with areas of the brain mapped out. A key to the map can be seen on the left

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RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social · 10d

Very interesting. This building is our only neighbour on our block. Now undergoing massive refurbishment. We belive it's being converted into student accommodation

Buildings on the block 232-250 St Vincent Street, Glasgow. Including Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

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RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social · 13d

Join us on an journey through the College as we celebrate Black History Month. Hear stories of groundbreaking doctors, scientists and scholars and learn about our ongoing research into our history and connections to empire and colonialism
📆 1, 20, 27 October 2025
🎫 heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/events

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RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social · 13d

It's #WorldPharmacistsDay!
This medicine cabinet c.1870 contains Spanish bark, Turkey rhubarb, Ipecacuanha, Dr James's Powders and much more. Many of the bottles still contain powders and have labels from pharmacists in Bridgnorth, Liverpool, London, Dumfries and Wolverhampton.

A small, portable medicine chest which is opened up to show bottles of medicine

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RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social · 14d

Are you living with dementia or know someone who is? We're co-hosting a workshop focusing on Robert Burns where there will be the opportunity to share your memories of the Bard. To book or for more information please contact [email protected]

📆7th October 2025
🕙10am
🎫Free but booking essential

Poster for the event "Remembering Rabbie: exploring the poetry and song of the Bard for better brain health"

Details of the event which runs on the 7th October at the College

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RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social · 14d

Today is #NationalFitnessDay so here’s a little inspiration to get you moving courtesy of Dr Johann Adolf Lugwig Werner and his Medicinische Gymnastik (c.1838) 💪

Black and white illustration of men in a series of poses from an exercise routine

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RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social · 15d

Nose bleed? You'll be needing a hot hogs turd 🐷

Helpful advice from our 18th century notebook of herbal remedies.

😬😬😬

Handwritten note detailing how to use a "hot hoggs turd" to stop a nose bleed

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Physicians' Gallery @physiciansgallery.bsky.social · 16d

Magiae Naturalis or Natural Magic. This book includes a recipe for Witches’ Unguent that supposedly allowed witches to fly at night… or at least they thought they could, due to its hallucinogenic properties!

A book frontispiece showing a man in a long robe holding a sword pointed at a mirror - another hand inside the mirror also hold a sword, pointing it back at the man

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Glasgow Women's Library @womenslibrary.bsky.social · 15d

Then and Now: Re-membering Scottish BME Works and Lives //

An exhibition celebrating the culture, heritage, and contributions of BME communities in Scotland - reclaiming narratives and shining a light on stories that shape our society.

Part of @blackhistorymonth.org.uk

Poster with a dark brown background featuring a stylised line drawing of a woman in a sari with a red bindi on her forehead. Large green and cream text at the top reads: Then & Now. Below, cream text states: An exhibition re-membering the lives and work of Scottish Black and Minority Ethnic communities.

At the bottom, gold text reads: Glasgow Women’s Library · Welcome Wall · Black History Month · 01 to 31 October 2025 · Opening hours for Glasgow Women’s Library. Logos of Scottish Museum of Empire, Slavery, Colonialism and Migration, Glasgow Women’s Library, Decolonising the Archive, and University of Strathclyde are displayed along the bottom edge.

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RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social · 18d

And we are open! #GlasgowDoorsOpenDayFestival
All day until 4pm. We are free to visit.

Come and discover 425 years of a Glasgow institution!

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RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social · 19d

Don't forget we're taking part in #GlasgowDoorsOpenDay tomorrow (20th September, 10am-4pm). Come along and see our beautiful building and learn about the history of medicine in Glasgow.

www.doorsopendays.org.uk/regions/glas...

Our college hall with ornate ceiling and grand fire place

Exterior view of our Georgian style building set over 4 floors

People viewing our Macewen exhibition and looking at large scale images of the brain

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RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social · 19d

Avast, me hearties! It be #TalkLikeAPirateDay! Pay heed and keep yer band of buccaneers scurvy free with advice from James Lind, 18th century pioneer of naval medicine and the treatment of scurvy. ☠️

Title page of "A treatise on the scurvy" by james Lind

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RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social · 21d

Sign up to our Eventbrite page to keep up to date with our events
www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/rcpsg-heri...

Upcoming:
20th September, Doors Open Day
1st, 20th, 27th October, Black History Month tours
30th October, Daemonologie: A King's obsession with Witches

More info: heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/events

Speaker at a conference standing in front of a seated audience

Overhead shot of kids looking at an old herbal book

Three hands which have been painted to show the bones underneath the skin

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RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social · Sep 2

We're taking part in Glasgow Doors Open Day!

Come and explore our beautiful building on St Vincent Street and learn about the history of medicine and surgery in Glasgow.

We're open 10am-4pm, Saturday 20th September. We'd love to see you 😀

www.doorsopendays.org.uk/regions/glas...

External view of the College building on St Vincent Street - A 3 storey Georgian style building with large black doors.

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RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social · 22d

The library reading room is closed today to all visitors whilst we get a wee spruce up. We'll be open again on the 18th September.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 26d

Obstetric Phantom, 18th century. The wood and leather model was used to teach medical students, and possibly midwives, about childbirth. It came from the Hospital del Ceppo in Pistoia, near Florence, founded in 1277.

Photo: Science Museum, London.

A wooden torso with a cloth baby and organs inside.

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RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social · 26d

Chomp!

Love this little guy taking a bite out of the gastronomy map of France (Cours gastronomique, ou, Les diners de Manant-ville, c.1809) 😋

Illustration of a man taking a bite out of the title of the book

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 27d

Mary Edwards Walker worked as a surgeon for the Union Army during the Civil War. She was captured by Confederates after crossing enemy lines to treat wounded civilians & arrested as a spy. She's the only woman to ever receive the Medal of Honor - pictured here, wearing it.

Black and white photo of a woman with short hair sitting in a chair with her legs crossed. She's dressed in trousers and a long coat. Pinned to her lapel is the Medal of Honor.

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Surgeons' Hall Museums @surgeonshall.bsky.social · 27d

These class medals are from extra-mural schools in Edinburgh that offered woman a way into medicine prior to the Universities (Scotland) Act 1889. These were awarded to Dr Alexandra Chalmers Watson, who later became the first woman to receive a medical degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1898

A silver medal inscribed with the Medical College For Women, Edinburgh.

Bronze medallion with "Practical Pathology Session 1894-95. Awarded to M.A.C Geddes. Alexander Bruce Lecturer."

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