Physicians' Gallery

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Episodes: 188

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This fortnightly podcast from the Physicians' Gallery at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh presents stories from medicine, past and present

Episode Date
Ep.13 - Ripley Alchemical Scroll, Part 3
Apr 24, 2026
Ep.12 - Ripley Alchemical Scroll, Part 2
Apr 10, 2026
Ep.11 - Ripley Alchemical Scroll, Part 1
Mar 27, 2026
Ep.10 - Scarificator
Mar 13, 2026
Ep.9 - Rose
Feb 27, 2026
Ep.8 - Bleeding bowl
Feb 13, 2026
Ep.7 - Air Loom
Jan 30, 2026
Ep.6 - Thistle
Jan 16, 2026
Ep.5- Artificial Wine
Jan 02, 2026
Ep.4 - Jamaica Ginger
Dec 19, 2025
Ep.3 - Tree of Intemperance
Dec 05, 2025
Ep.2 - Electro Machine
Nov 21, 2025
Ep.1 - Erotomania
Nov 07, 2025
Ep.26 - Zeus, Zoonosis and Zits
Oct 24, 2025
Ep.25 - Yawning, Yellow Fever and Yoghurt
Oct 10, 2025
Ep.24 - Xmas, X-Rays and Xavier (Saint)
Sep 26, 2025
Ep.23 - Warts, Witches and Widowhood
Sep 12, 2025
Ep.22 - Vampirism, Virginity and Vaccines
Aug 29, 2025
Ep.21 - Ugliness, Urticaria and Universal Medicine
Aug 15, 2025
Ep.20 - Tea, Thyroid and Tobacco
Aug 01, 2025
Ep.19 - Scurvy, Snuff and Sympathetic Medicine
Jul 18, 2025
Ep.18 - Radium, Rosacea and Rabies
Jul 04, 2025
Ep.17 - Quinine, Quarantine and Quacks
Jun 20, 2025
Ep.16 - Pregnancy, Pepys and Phrenology
Jun 06, 2025
Ep.15 - Oranges, Obesity and Osteoporosis
May 23, 2025
Ep.14 - Nurses, Nails and Nymphomania
May 09, 2025
Ep.13 - Milk, Mercury and Menopause
Apr 25, 2025
Ep.12 - Lying-In, Lobotomy and Lead
Apr 11, 2025
Ep.11 - Keyser's Pills, Kelp and Kidney Stones
Mar 28, 2025
Ep.8 - Halitosis, Hemlock and Hysteria
Feb 14, 2025
Ep.10 - Juniper, Jet lag and jealousy
Feb 14, 2025
Ep.9 - Insomnia, Iron and the Itch
Feb 14, 2025
Ep.7 - Glass Delusion, Gangrene And Godfrey's Cordial
Jan 31, 2025
Ep.6 - Forceps, Food and Flatulence
Jan 17, 2025
Ep. 5 - Electric Eels, Emetics And Eggs
Jan 03, 2025
Ep.4 - Dancing Plague, Digitalis and Disability
Dec 20, 2024
Ep.3 - Condoms, Cataracts and Coffee
Dec 06, 2024
Ep.2 - Beavers, Birthmarks and Bathing
Nov 22, 2024
Ep.1 - Anaesthesia, Autopsy and Antidotes
Nov 08, 2024
Ep.15 - Ambrose Parry
Oct 25, 2024
Ep.14 - Human And Animal Health
Oct 11, 2024
Ep.13 - Marie Stopes
Sep 27, 2024
Ep.12 - A History Of Menstruation
Sep 13, 2024
Ep.11 - The Coffin
Aug 30, 2024
Ep.10 - Vital Organs
Aug 16, 2024
Ep.09 - Death Of Kings
Aug 02, 2024
Ep.08 - Historical Reflections On Burn Scars
Jul 19, 2024
Ep.07 - What Is A Good Death
Jul 05, 2024
Ep.06 - Roald Dahl's Marvellous Medicine
Jun 21, 2024
Ep.05 - From Spots To Pox
Jun 07, 2024
Ep.04 - Health And Disability In Convict Sydney
May 24, 2024
Ep.03 - Food, Drink And The Maintenance Of Health
May 10, 2024
Ep.02 - The History Of Condoms
Apr 26, 2024
Ep.01 - An Untold History Of Tattooing
Apr 12, 2024
Trailer
Apr 05, 2024
Ep.27 - Head To Toe - Feet
Mar 29, 2024
Ep.26 - Head To Toe - Throat
Mar 15, 2024
Ep.25 - Head To Toe - Liver
Mar 01, 2024
Ep.24 - Head To Toe - Spleen
Feb 16, 2024
Ep.23 - Head To Toe - Brain
Feb 02, 2024
Ep.22 - Head To Toe - Legs
Jan 19, 2024
Ep.21 - Head To Toe - Armpit
Jan 05, 2024
Ep.20 - Head To Toe - Heart
Dec 22, 2023
Ep.19 - Head To Toe - Womb
Dec 08, 2023
Ep.18 - Head To Toe - Guts
Nov 24, 2023
Ep.17 - Head To Toe - Anus
Nov 10, 2023
Ep.16 - Head To Toe - Bladder
Oct 27, 2023
Ep.15 - Head To Toe - Hands
Oct 13, 2023
Ep.14 - Head To Toe - Veins
Sep 29, 2023
Ep.13 - Head To Toe - Lungs
Sep 15, 2023
Ep.12 - Head To Toe - Muscles
Sep 01, 2023
Ep.11 - Head To Toe - Tongue
Aug 18, 2023
Ep.10 - Head To Toe - Fat
Aug 04, 2023
Ep.9 - Head To Toe - Breasts
Jul 21, 2023
Ep.8 - Head To Toe - Mouth
Jul 07, 2023
Ep.7 - Head To Toe - Hair
Jun 23, 2023
Ep.6 - Head To Toe - Ears
Jun 09, 2023
Ep.5 - Head To Toe - Teeth
May 26, 2023
Ep.4 - Head To Toe - Skull
May 12, 2023
Ep.3 - Head To Toe - Nose
Apr 28, 2023
Ep.2 - Head To Toe - Eyes
Apr 14, 2023
Ep.1 - Head To Toe - Skin
Mar 31, 2023
Ep.20 - Past & Present - Cardiology
Mar 17, 2023
Ep.19 - Past & Present - Dermatology
Mar 03, 2023
Ep.18 - Past & Present - Paediatrics
Feb 17, 2023
Ep.17 - Past & Present - Opthalmology
Feb 03, 2023
Ep.16 - Past & Present - Haematology
Jan 20, 2023
Ep.15 - Past & Present - Neurology
Jan 06, 2023
Ep.14 - Past & Present - Emergency Medicine
Dec 23, 2022
Ep.13 - Past & Present - Pharmacy
Dec 09, 2022
Ep.12 - Past & Present - Respiratory
Nov 25, 2022
Ep.11 - Past & Present - Infectious Diseases
Nov 11, 2022
Ep.10 - Past & Present - Oncology
Oct 28, 2022
Ep.9 - Past & Present - Gastroenterology
Oct 14, 2022
Ep.8 - Past & Present - Psychiatry
Sep 30, 2022
Ep.7 - Past & Present - Public Health
Sep 16, 2022
Ep.6 - Past & Present - Renal
Sep 02, 2022
Ep.5 - Past & Present - Genito - Urinary
Aug 19, 2022
Ep.4 - Past & Present - Geriatrics
Aug 05, 2022
Ep.3 - Past & Present - Rheumatology
Jul 22, 2022
Ep.2 - Past & Present - Palliative Care
Jul 08, 2022
Ep.1 - Past & Present - Diabetes
Jun 24, 2022
Ep.85 - Grief And The Pandemic
Jun 10, 2022
Ep.84 - The Starving Artist
May 27, 2022
Ep.83 - Early Modern Scottish Recipe Books
May 13, 2022
Ep.82 - Physicians, Plants And Poisons
Apr 29, 2022
Ep.81 - Invention Of The Emotions
Apr 15, 2022
Ep.80 - London's Science Museum - Collecting COVID For The Future
Apr 01, 2022
Ep.79 - Patient art at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital
Mar 18, 2022
Ep.78 - The History Of Clinical Trials And James Lind
Mar 04, 2022
Ep.77 - Cultural Biography Of Prostate
Feb 18, 2022
Ep.76 - Counterfeiting the Loss of Virginity
Feb 04, 2022
Ep.75 - Intensive Care and the Pandemic
Jan 21, 2022
Ep.74 - Caring For The Poor In The Highlands
Jan 07, 2022
Ep.73 - Medical Recipes And Overindulgence
Dec 24, 2021
Ep.72 - Watercolour, woodcut and wax Medical illustration around 1900
Dec 10, 2021
Ep.71 - Alienation and Beauty in Medical Photography
Nov 26, 2021
Ep.70 - Ambrose Parry - The Art Of Dying And The History Of Chloroform
Nov 12, 2021
Ep.69 - Current Approaches To Tuberculosis Treatment
Oct 29, 2021
Ep.68 - The Rise and Fall of the Liverpool Care Pathway
Oct 15, 2021
Ep.67 - Saving the Nearly-Drowned and Humane Societies
Oct 01, 2021
Ep.66 - Syphilis and Suspect Medical Practitioners in Nuremberg, 1495–1560
Sep 17, 2021
Ep.65 - The Mütter Research Institute
Sep 03, 2021
Ep.64 - Remedies for poison in the 1500s
Aug 20, 2021
Ep.63 - Men's Sexual Health In Early Modern England
Aug 06, 2021
Ep.62 - History of the Casualty Department
Jul 23, 2021
Ep.61 - Edinburgh's Forgotten Contribution To Antivenoms
Jul 09, 2021
Ep.60 - Historical Approaches to Diabetes Treatment
Jun 25, 2021
Ep.59 - Vesalius And The Canon Of The Human Body
Jun 11, 2021
Ep.58 - Fear and Risk in Britain’s Post-War Fluoride Debate
May 28, 2021
Ep.57 - Understanding And Managing Syphilis
May 14, 2021
Ep.56 - Alexander Morison and The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases
Apr 30, 2021
Ep.55 - Public health in Britain, 1948-2010
Apr 16, 2021
Ep.54 - William Orpen: looking at bodies in medicine and art
Apr 02, 2021
Ep.53 - Military Public Health from the Crimea to World War One
Mar 19, 2021
Ep.52 - Forensic Psychiatry From Plato to the Modern ‘Insanity’ Defence
Mar 05, 2021
Ep.51 - Current Approaches to Diabetes Treatment
Feb 19, 2021
Ep.50 - The Theatre of Anatomy
Feb 05, 2021
Ep.49 - Women In White, Eccentric Heirs, Inconvenient People
Jan 22, 2021
Ep.48 - The Emergence Of The Forensic Team
Jan 08, 2021
Ep.47 - Gendering Artificial Anatomies: Practices and Materials
Dec 25, 2020
Ep.46 - The Changing Management of Abdominal Wounds During the Great War
Dec 11, 2020
Ep.45 - Syphilitic Noses In 1700s British Literature And Art
Nov 27, 2020
Ep.44 - Doctors’ Fight Against the Plague in Early Modern Europe
Nov 13, 2020
Ep.43 - Syphilis In The 21st Century
Oct 30, 2020
Ep.42 - An Urge to Correct: Andreas Vesalius Revised
Oct 16, 2020
Ep.41 - Fragments from an Eighteenth-Century Family Scandal
Oct 02, 2020
Ep.40 - Burke, Now and Then
Sep 18, 2020
Ep.39 - Prosthetics: From Maker to User
Sep 04, 2020
Ep.38 - Coping With Plague - Public Health And Epidemics
Aug 21, 2020
Ep.37 - Substance Abuse: Past and Present
Aug 07, 2020
Ep.36 - Louis Wain - Animals and Madness
Jul 24, 2020
Ep.35 - Looking To The Past To Improve Our Future
Jul 10, 2020
Ep.34 - William Harvey and the Discovery of Circulation
Jun 26, 2020
Ep.33 - The Uses of Plants in Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome
Jun 14, 2020
Ep.32 - Medical Tourism in Victorian Edinburgh
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.31 - John Dee: Magic, Medicine And The Tudor World
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.30 - Knowing and Selling Exotic Drugs in Paris c.1700
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.29 - Food allergy Before “allergy”
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.28 - The great influenza of 1918-20
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.27 - The Medical Campaign Against Female Musical Education
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.26 - Medical Innovation in the British Empire: The Edinburgh Connection
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.25 - 1700s Dissection and the Stoic Ideal
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.24 - What Killed Burns And What Did Not?
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.23 - Animals And Their Pathologists In London, 1846 - 1900
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.22 - After Burke And Hare: Procuring Corpses To Dissect In Scotland
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.21 - The Age of Stress: Myth or Reality?
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.20 - The Doctor-Patient Relationship In Art From Ancient Greece To The Present Day
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.19 - The Evolution Of Controlled Trials
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.18 - Epidemiology and the Science of Detection, 1890-1960
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.17 - Benjamin Rush, the Yellow Fever, and the Rise of Physician Autobiography
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.16 - Forensic Science In The Era Of Burke And Hare
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.15 - Fashionable Stomach Complaints And The Mind In Georgian Britain
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.14 - Irish Migration, Institutionalisation and Mental Illness in 1800s England
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.13 - How Ideas about Psychiatric Trauma Evolved in the Two World Wars
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.12 - George III And The Porphyria Myth
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.11 - Patients’ Letters From The Royal Edinburgh Asylum
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.10 - The Relationship Between Madness, Psychiatry And Gender
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.9 - Victorian Skin
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.8 - Thomas Mann’s Fictional Characters and Their Quest for the Patient Narrative
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.7 - Pain and the Politics of Sympathy
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.6 - The Strange History Of Aristotle's Masterpiece
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.5 - The Bloody Fields Of Waterloo
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.4 - Food, Fear And Public Health In Victorian And Edwardian Britain
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.3 - Thomas Sprat And The Later History Of The Plague Of Athens
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.2 - The Annotated Medical And Physical Observations of John Pringle
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.1 - The History of Forensic Anthropology
Jun 10, 2020
Ep.0 - Introduction
Jun 10, 2020