Nose bleed? You'll be needing a hot hogs turd 🐷 Helpful advice from our 18th century notebook of herbal remedies. 😬😬😬

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!

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

And we are open! #GlasgowDoorsOpenDayFestival All day until 4pm. We are free to visit. Come and discover 425 years of a Glasgow institution!

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...

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. ☠️

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

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...

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.

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.

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) 😋

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.

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

New collections pages now online as part of our 'Outside the Asylum' project supported through National Lottery by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social. This patient gown is labelled ‘M8’, and was made and worn by a patient in male ward '8'. #MentalHealth #HistPsych medicalmuseum.org.uk/outside-the-...

A mindful session for our friends from Flourish House, exploring the College and learning about Audubon's Birds of America. Led by illustrator and author, Helen Kellock. With thanks to @museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk for the funding.

Love this photo from our collection of one of the laboratories at Glasgow Royal Infirmary (c.1900). Just look at all those bottles!

Join us to celebrate East & South East Asian (ESEA) Heritage Month! Bring your friends tomorrow 4 Sept from 5.30pm for a fun & thoughtful drop-in paper-based craft mixer, inspired by @rcphysicians.bsky.social ESEA archive collections & plants. Book 👉 royal-college-of-physicians.arttickets.org.uk

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...

For #WorldLetterWritingDay here's a lovely note from a patient to surgeon William Macewen, thanking him for saving his life after a gunshot wound. Check out the signature too!

Plates illustrating the "movements, structure & sounds of the heart" from Francis Sibson's Medical Anatomy, 1869. The coloured lithographs are by William Fairland and JB Leveille.

An account of two successful operations for restoring a lost nose from the integuments of the forehead (1816) by JC Carpue. The illustrations are by Charles Turner who used the à la poupée printing method to try and create a more realistic depiction of delicate tissue

We couldn't let #InternationalDogDay pass without sharing one of our favourite photos from our archive. This very good boy visited patients at Mearnskirk hospital c.1955 to offer some much welcome #PetTherapy 🐶❤️

Its #InternationalDogDay, and I usually share some #DisHist posts, and this is one of the earliest pieces I wrote about the First World War and dogs, for @nursingclio.bsky.social. They're all good dogs. nursingclio.org/2018/11/15/t...

Class card belonging to Murdoch Cameron, a pioneer in caesarean section under antiseptic conditions. The card shows attendance at Joseph Lister's Clinical Lectures on the Cases of Surgical Patients, held in 1867 at Glasgow Royal Infirmary

Fancy going for a dive this weekend? This wooden ark for diving was designed by Scottish natural philosopher, George Sinclair (c.1630–1696). The ark features in his book Hydrostaticks published in Edinburgh in 1672.

A glass and brass syringe in a velvet lined case. This syringe was owned by Alexander Wood who is credited with the invention of the hypodermic needle.

I love this relief sculpture on the old Anderson College of Medicine Building on Dumbarton Road in Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #sculpture #partick #publicart #medicine #historyofmedicine #architecturephotography

A model of the brain made in Vienna around 1925, showing the cytoarchitectonic areas according to Constantin Economo. Economo was a Romanian neurologist based in Vienna who looked at the different cell types in the human brain.

Join us and @surgeonshall.bsky.social to discover how art and medicine come together in this special online panel exploring portraiture, gender, and representation. 📅 4th September 2025 🕙 7pm GMT+1 📍Online 🎫 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/painting-l...

Glasgow super-surgeon, William Macewen was one of the very first to use photos to chart the progress of his patients. He would photograph their journey from consultation to post operation. This photo (c.1880) shows patients post bone graft surgery who could now bend their arms. #WorldPhotographyDay📸

It's #WorldPhotographyDay! This amazing photo of a #Glasgow slum was taken by Thomas Annan c1868-71. He was commissioned by the City of Glasgow Improvement Trust to photo condemned slums. By the time of its publication (1878) many of the slums depicted had already disappeared #WorldPhotoDay 📸

This 16thc text contains descriptions of over 200 spas as well as collecting together the works of over 70 classical, Arabic and contemporary writers on the subject of bathing. This illustration shows visitors bathing, drrinking and defecating at the spa

This incredibly large kidney stone has taken the shape of the pelvis and calyces of the kidney, effectively forming a cast of the spaces inside the kidney. Kidney stones like this are known as staghorn calculi.

We've got lots of lovely exhibitions for you to view on our website. You can learn about medicine in the Victorian era, Glasgow's lost hospital, the world's first successful brain tumour operation (which took place in Glasgow!), and much more. heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/exhibits

Thinking of taking a dip in the sea to cool down? You'll be delighted to hear that sea water is also good for restoring strength, rheumatic pains, and healing wounds. This 18th century #herbal notebook also recommends that you drink the water - please don't do that!😟

Super event this evening with @rcpmuseum.bsky.social, @physiciansgallery.bsky.social and our own College here in Glasgow hearing all the amazing stories of medicine and migration from South Asia. Our three Colleges are working towards uncovering more of these histories. #SouthAsianHeritageMonth

It's #WorldElephantDay! To celebrate here are two wonderful woodcut illustrations of elephants from Tractos de la drogas y medicinas de las Indias Orientales (c.1578) 🐘

For this edition of #MarginaliaMonday, here’s a poor puppy stuck in a pot! Spotted in the margins of a 15th century manuscript, he’s clearly been caught in the middle of some questionable decision-making. (Trinity College MS B.1.46)

It's #InternationalCatDay! 🐈 To celebrate here's a purrrfectly pretty kitty from Historia Animalium (c.1602) by Conrad Gessner.

A handwritten inventory of surgical instruments from Glasgow Royal infirmary, 1825. You can find out what was in the store by viewing our digitised copy heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/items/show/192

The frontal section of these gold bases upper and lower dentures is set with human teeth. It is possible that these are 'Waterloo teeth' extracted from cadavers after the Battle of Waterloo. You can read more about Waterloo teeth over on our blog: buff.ly/35z1GbI

"A large teaspoonful to be taken occasionally in a little water; or new milk." This is Dr Gregory's Stomachic Powder for indigestion, acidity, heart-burn, and irregular bowels. The bottle dates from c.1860 and still contains a small amount of powder.

Join us, @rcpmuseum.bsky.social ‬and @physiciansgallery.bsky.social on 12 Aug for a special #SouthAsianHeritageMonth event where we look at our ongoing work to uncover the stories of the first South Asian medics to migrate to the UK. Book for free: stories_of_medicine_and_migration.eventbrite.co.uk

Today is #WorldBrainDay 🧠 This Woodcut illustration is from Cerebri Anatome (c.1664) by Thomas Willis, the father of #neuroscience. The term #neurology first appears in this book. He also discovered the Circle of Willis, an important anatomical structure that provides blood to the brain.

For South Asian Heritage Month see our guest blog by Dr Theeba Krishnamoorty on the pioneering doctor and activist Dr Nallamma Williams, a prominent voice in Sri Lanka’s early suffrage movement rcsedlibraryandarchive.wordpress.com/2025/07/18/d... #SouthAsianHeritageMonth #RootsToRoutes

We'll be closed on Monday 21st July for Glasgow Fair Day. Back in as usual on Tuesday the 22nd. We hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Today marks the start of South Asian Heritage Month. To celebrate we have a wonderful new blog post by Dr Theeba Krishnamoorty, discussing the very 1st South Asian women to qualify to practice medicine heritageblog.rcpsg.ac.uk/2025/07/18/a... #SouthAsianHeritageMonth #RootsToRoutes #womeninmedicine

Here's a very suave doctor using the Czermak's #laryngoscope (c1850) with reflector and laryngeal mirror. Using sun or lamp light the reflector (held between the teeth) shines light onto the mirror which could be positioned to illuminate the larynx or nasopharynx/nose. #historyofmedicine

This collection of foreign bodies removed from the oesophagus was donated to the museum in 1928.

Happy #WorldSnakeDay 🐍 To celebrate here's a very lovely woodcut illustration from De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica (1658) by Willem Piso, showing a super little snake slithering along the page.