Entries tagged

‘medicine’

EventDate
Burke and Hare’s best customer dies 20th December
Sherlock Holmes inspiration born in Edinburgh 2nd December
Hypnotism demonstrated for the first time 27th November
Medical pioneer and women’s rights campaigner Elsie Inglis dies 26th November
Doctors awake after accidentally discovering anaesthesia 5th November
Peace Prize winner John Boyd Orr is born 23rd September
Death of the man who delivered the Queen 13th September
The world’s first full-body MRI scan 28th August
The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh is founded 6th August
Maggies Centres founder Maggie Keswick Jencks dies 8th July
NHS Scotland is founded 5th July
Waterbed inventor is born in Arbroath 15th May
Cancer pioneer Henry Littlejohn is born 8th May
Biological weapons tests begin in the Outer Hebrides
South Glasgow University Hospital takes its first patients 27th April
X-ray ‘martyr’ John Spence dies 15th March
Father of antibiotics dies suddenly 11th March
Hypodermic syringe inventor dies in Edinburgh 26th February