Plan showing a long single storey building, a ward layout and a cross section of the main building
Love this plan for the Belvidere Fever Hospital, Glasgow (c.1874). The hospital was primarily for the treatment and care of patients with infectious diseases #ArchivePlan #Archive30
Black and white photo showing 5 women, 4 of whom are wearing nurses uniforms, sat at a table. The table has a teapot and cups laid out on it
Happy #NationalTeaDay! 🫖
Here's a wonderful photo of a tea party held on board the French hospital Ship, the Sphinx, as a thank you for nurses from the Scottish Women's Hospitals. #WW1 #HistNursing
Looking down from above at school children's head. The children are leaning over a table looking at an open historic book
Today for #Archive30 it's #ArchiveMyths
Are archives just for academics? We love our academic researchers but everyone is welcome whether you're a family historian, someone working on a school project, a medical practitioner or just a wee bit nosey!
Conservator working on large book
Conserving the biggest book in the collection was a challenge but our conservator Rebecca, managed it! #TheBirdsofAmerica #Audubon #ArchiveConservation #Archive30
cannon shell lying on a red background
#WW2 Cannon shell extracted from a gunner's face by Tom Gibson, past President of our College and Captain of a RAMC maxillofacial team. The shell is 8.5cm long, 2cm in diameter & weighs 147.3g. The patient didn't know it was there!! 😱
#UnusualArchives #Archive30
colourful map
This lovely colour-coded map shows the Surgeon's districts of Glasgow, c.1831. The surgeon assigned to each district was responsible for visiting the poor for free.
#ColourfulArchives #Archive30
Black and white photo of a man in a white t-shirt and shorts sat on top of a penny farthing bicycle. Another man in a dark suit is helping to steady the bike.
We're getting sporty for today's #Archive30!
Love this photo (c.1885) of past president of our College, John Freeland Fergus. Fergus was a member of the Scottish International Penny Farthing Cycling team. Definitely a sport we'd like to see make a bit of a comeback! #SportArchives
Woodcut illustration showing 5 unicorns. Some are very hairy!
It's #NationalUnicornDay! 🦄
To celebrate here are some fabulous #unicorns from Pierre Pomet's Histoire generale des drogues (c.1694). Unicorn horn was believed to have miraculous medicinal properties that could cure all manner of ills.
Black and white photo showing nurses and doctors in a operating theatre.
Today's #Archive30 theme is #ArchivePast and we're delving into some of our past exhibitions which include medicine in the victorian era, Glasgow's lost hospitals, art and surgery, Joseph Lister, and much more! You can view our past exhibitions here: heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/exhibits
An open book showing a woodcut illustration of an angry looking beaver.
Today's #Archive30 is all about #ArchiveAnimals. It also happens to be #InternationalBeaverDay! 🦫
Perfect occasion to share this angry little beaver with you who we found wandering through the pages of Conrad Gesner's Historia Animalium (c.1602).
Two handwritten pages from our first vaccination register dated 1801. The notes contain names, ages, addresses and parents occupations. There are also notes on the success of the vaccine and method of administration
In 1801 our College began a smallpox vaccination programme which ran for almost 100 years. In the first five years approx. 10,000 people, mostly children, were vaccinated. This register contains the names of those very first patients heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/items/show/207
#WorldHealthDay
Woodcut illustration of a rabbit facing to the left. From Conrad Gesner's Historia Animalium
We'll be closed on Friday 3rd April for the Easter break and back in again at 9am on Tuesday 7th April. Don't forget you can still "visit" our collections on our website at any time heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk
We wish you all a lovely weekend.
Floorplan for the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow. The plan shows a central waiting room surrounded by surgeons and physicians rooms. The dispensary sits in the bottom right corner
Floor plan for the dispensary at the Royal Hospital For Sick Children, Glasgow c.1888. The dispensary was opened to provide free healthcare to children living in poverty.
#Archive30 #ArchiveBuildings
A wooden block with cloth looped in a circle with a straight piece of string attached, which can be wrapped under the leg for support.
A truss is a device with a supportive area (in this case, the wooden block) worn to prevent enlargement of a hernia or the return of a reduced hernia. This one is of Turkish design and came from Aden, a seaport city in Yemen.
Our archive room with boxes and books lining the shelves
On open archive box showing old vaccination registers
the end of a blue document tube with a reference number of 10/10/9-12 written on a label. From our William Macewen collection
#Archive30 with @arascot.bsky.social has arrived 🥳
Throughout April there'll be lots themes to enjoy. Today = #YourArchive
Our archive has collections dating back to our College's foundation in 1599. You'll also find items relating to hospitals, societies & some of the greatest minds in medicine.
The #Archive30 campaign starts today!
These prompts are an opportunity for you to showcase your collections, staff, and service! Take part in as many themes as you want and make sure to tag @arascot.bsky.social
Hand drawn plan of the extension showing a cross section of the interior which is laid out over 4 floors
Hand drawn plan showing an external view of the new extension
#OTD Sir John James Burnet was born 🎂
Burnet was a Scottish architect who designed many famous buildings in Glasgow and beyond! These are his plans and elevations for our beautiful hall which was an extension added to our building on St Vincent Street in 1892-3
#Heritage #Glasgow
Page from a book showing two woodcut illustrations. The first shows a boat with mast and sails and a giant sea monster popping up out of the water. The second illustration shows the sea monster attacking the boat
You're going to need a bigger boat!
from Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (c.1558) by Olaus Magnus.
Stack of paper pages. Top page reads: Toast water Take 1 slice bread Toast it as crisply as possible without burning Put in a jug and pour over it 1 pint of cold spring water Let is stand ½ hour Strain Serve plan or add the juice of a lemon
Latest collection discovery, hidden in a book are a bundle of medical and culinary recipes. Including recipes for raw beef tea, orange jelly and one for 'soothing nourishment in consumption'.
One of the least appealing is 'toast water' which is, you guessed it, toast that has been put in water.
Black and white photo show a single storey building with a veranda. Beds line the veranda. Each one is occupied by a child wearing a sun hat.
On #WorldTBDay - photo of the first patients at Mearnskirk hospital which was set up in the 1930s to treat children with #Tuberculosis. The photo shows the use of heliotherapy as a therapeutic measure with the patients wheeled out onto the veranda to get the benefits of sunlight.
A tin spirit lamp. It resembles a watering can or a teapot with a handle and a spout.
This looks like it belongs in the garden but it is a tin spirit lamp is from the 19th century . It was used to burn the air in cupping glasses prior to their application to the skin. The cooling of the air is thought to create a suction effect so the cups stick to the skin.
Open book showing a woodcut illustration of a bear
It's #WorldBearDay 🐻
To celebrate here's an adorable bear found in the pages of Conrad Gesner's Historia Animalium (c.1602).
Lovely article on the very first female Fellow of the College, Jamini Sen.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A page from a book showing two woodcut illustrations of different varieties of daffodils.
To celebrate the #SpringEquinox here are some lovely woodcut illustrations of daffodils from The herball or generall historie of plantes by John Gerard, c.1636
A small leather case which is lying open on a red cloth. Inside are various surgical instruments including lancets, scissors and a needle.
David Livingstone, explorer, medical missionary and Honorary Fellow of our College was born #OnThisDay 1813. This pocket case of surgical instruments belonged to Livingstone and went with him on his travels in Africa.
An open book showing a fold out page with an illustration of a purple foxglove on it
Physician and botanist, William Withering was born #OnThisDay 1741. He was the first to undertake clinical assessment of digitalis as a treatment for dropsy. His book "An account of the foxglove" was published in 1785 #histmed
A painting of seven female surgeons sitting around the anatomy theatre in Surgeons' Hall Museums. Some are wearing their RCSEd gowns and some are wearing their scrubs. In the background is two framed images which show Alice Mabel Headwards-Hunter and Caroline Doig.
Visitors to the Museum and @rcsed.bsky.social will now see 'Eleven Surgeons' by Kirstin Mackinnon, commissioned as part of a project on the history of women in surgery. Learn more about the surgeons in the portrait here: guides.bloombergconnects.org/en-US/guide/...
An open medicine chest full of glass bottles. In front of the chest are more bottles, a medical textbook, a feeding cup, and a glass mortar and pestle.
The Church of England might seem an unusual source for info about female medical practitioners in the years 1500-1800. But it is where this story of a brief period of opportunity is set. . . Read the full blog👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/blog/archbis...
#WomensHistoryMonth @rcphysicians.bsky.social #histmed
An open copy of the Lancet from 1867 showing the first page of Lister's article
#OTD 1867, On the antiseptic principle in the practice of surgery by Joseph Lister was published in @thelancet.com. Lister 1st experimented with carbolic acid as an antiseptic at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Lister's work revolutionised surgery & saved millions of lives #JosephLister #histmed #OnThisDay
