RCPSG Heritage

@RCPSGheritage

News, events and stories from the library, archive & museum at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
Blog: rcp.sg/heritageblog

Glasgow, UK heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk Joined November 2012

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RCPSG Heritage @RCPSGheritage Mar 8, 2025

We are now on Bluesky, come and say hi!

#HappyInternationalWomensDay2025

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bsky.app RCPSG Heritage (@rcpsgheritage.bsky.social) GMC figures showed that on 28 February 2025, women made up a slight majority – 50.04% – of the country’s doctors and men, 49.96% #InternationalWomen'sDay https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/ma...

RCPSG Heritage @RCPSGheritage Mar 5, 2025

Are you a South Asian medical practitioner in Scotland? Monique Lerpiniere is a PhD student at @UniStrathclyde working with the @rcpsglasgow

Please contact Monique on monique.lerpiniere.2022@uni.strath.ac.uk and share with anyone who might be interested.

RCPSG Heritage @RCPSGheritage Jan 23, 2025

⚠️Due to a red weather warning tomorrow (24/01/25) our library, archive and museum will be closed to all visitors. Staff will be online to answer queries and you can still explore our collections on our website at any time heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk
#StormEowyn

External view of the College - a Georgian style building over three floors. Steps with lampposts either side lead up from the pavement to closed black doors.

RCPSG Heritage @RCPSGheritage Jan 23, 2025

For #NationalHandwritingDay here's proof that doctors don't have terrible handwriting! This beautifully handwritten letter (c.1735) diagnoses a patient with breast cancer, a “disorder rarely hitherto known to yield to any milder remedy than the knife”.

Handwritten letter dated August 1735. It is written by a physician who is providing a patient with a diagnosis of breast cancer. The physician suggests several remedies but stresses that an operation is the most likely cure.

RCPSG Heritage @RCPSGheritage Jan 22, 2025

Happy #LibraryShelfieDay! 📚
We love this photo of our Lower Library - this was the original working library of the College when we moved to our premises on St Vincent Street in 1862. Many of the books in this room date from that period and cover all aspects of medicine & surgery

Floor to ceiling book shelves filled with books can be seen to the left of the photo. A narrow gang way runs between the shelves and a wooden handrail. A window can be seen at the far end.