Browse Artefacts (99 total)

Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm

Born in the manse of Arbuthnot, Kincardineshire, John Arbuthnot (1667–1735) obtained an MA from Aberdeen in 1681. He obtained the first recorded MD from St Andrews University in 1696. Arbuthnot established himself…

Oil on canvas, 101.6 x 71 cm

Educated at Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University, graduating in 1856, John Batty Tuke belonged to a Quaker family, several generations of which lived in the East Riding of Yorkshire. One branch of the family…

Oil on canvas, 77 x 63.5 cm

Born in Auchinleck, Ayrshire, John Boswell studied medicine in Leyden, the last British student to be promoted by Herman Boerhaave. He obtained a MD from Leyden in 1736. He was elected President of the Royal College…

Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 cm (estimated)

Born in Biggar, Lanarkshire, in 1828 John Brown was apprenticed to Mr Syme, FRCS, who taught surgery in the Extra-Mural School. He graduated with an MD in 1833 and started general practice in Edinburgh.…

Oil on canvas, 122 x 86.4 cm

Born in Biggar, Lanarkshire, in 1828 John Brown was apprenticed to Mr Syme, FRCS, who taught surgery in the Extra-Mural School. He graduated MD in 1833 and started general practice in Edinburgh.

In 1847 he became…

Oil on canvas, 75 x 116 cm

John Cash graduated from Edinburgh University in 1961 following his schooling at Ashville College, Harrogate. In 1969 he was awarded a World Health Organization Travelling Scholarship to the United States and shortly…

Oil on canvas, 75 x 62 cm

John Burt was one of an Edinburgh medical dynasty. He was educated at the High School and Edinburgh University and while travelling on the Continent graduated with a MD at the University of Giessen in 1826.

His…

Oil on canvas, 95 x 79 cm

John Croom had an impressive Edinburgh medical pedigree. His grandfather (also Sir John Halliday Croom) was professor of midwifery in the University of Edinburgh and his father, Dr David Halliday Croom, was a respected…

Oil on canvas, 78.7 x 63.5 cm

Born in London and educated in Exeter, John Hughes Bennett (1812–1875) commenced the study of medicine in Edinburgh in 1833. He obtained an MD with a gold medal in 1837.

He was a leading member of the Royal…

Oil on canvas, 71 x 50.8 cm

John Moir was born in a French fortress at Verdun, the son of a Naval Surgeon. His parents were taken prisoners during the Napoleonic War. In an exchange of prisoners in 1814, Dr Moir, senior, came to Edinburgh with…