Medical Scotland

A history of Scotland’s medical heritage begins with early Gaelic medical manuscripts. Shows the instigation of medical learning at Aberdeen University in 1494; the first medical book written in 1568. Profiles famous medical schools in Glasgow and Edinburgh and their many famous students. Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin, physician writers such as Tobias Smillet, AJ Cronin and David Livingston, famous explorer. Others profiled are Charles Darwin who studied at Edinburgh and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who was influenced by one of his professors to develop the character of Sherlock Holmes. Also tells stories of ‘body snatching’.