Title: Physicians and surgeons in Glasgow :
Authors: Geyer-Kordesch, Johanna.; Hull, Andrew.; Macdonald, Fiona.; Macdonald, Fiona A.
Date: 1999
Publisher: Hambledon Press,
Physical description: xviii, 478 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC class: R
Abstract: This volume traces the founding of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and its role, in the 18th century, as a exemplary centre of teaching. The text then covers the college's decline and subsequent re-emergence.
Contents: "... Tells the remarkable story of one of the oldest medical incorporations in Britain. It also sets its history both in the local context, of Glasgow and the west of Scotland, and in the broader context of European medicine" -- Cover pocket. The book includes rights and privileges; the founders; surgeons and barbers; regulation of practice; enlightenment; botany, anatomy and chemistry; midwifery and general practice; corporate medicine and the hospitals; time of crisis; the best place to study medicine.
Notes: Companion volume to: The shaping of the medical profession / Andrew Hull and Johanna Geyer-Kordesch. 1999