Peter Lowe: a father figure of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

Peter Lowe: information and misinformation about a Scots surgeon of the sixteenth century.

The paper reviews what is known of Peter Lowe's surgical education, practice and activities before he obtained the Royal Charter in the last year of the sixteenth century, founding what became the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. It attempts to separate probable fact from accumulated fiction then discusses briefly Lowe's possible contributions to the contents of the Charter.

Patients Attitude towards Surgeons Attire in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda

Background A doctor’s competence and professionalism is often judged on the basis of attire. Our Lady of Lourdes (OLOL) is a leading Irish hospital in the implementation of Bare Below the Elbows (BBTE) policy, however surgical attire is not standardised and there is great variability in attire worn on wards. We aimed to evaluate patients attitude towards surgeons attire in OLOL.   Methods A pro...

The Scottish Society of the History of Medicine: Report of Proceedings, Session 1970–71

The death of Professor-Emeritus John Glaister took place on 4 October 1971. He occupied the regius chair of forensic medicine at Glasgow University for thirty-one years. Like his father who held the same chair before him, Professor Glaister was a distinguished figure in the field of forensic medicine, especially in Scotland. But it was an English murder that made him well known to the public at...

Global Surgery Priorities: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Hector's house: Sir Hector Hetherington and the academicization of Glasgow Hospital Medicine before the NHS.

On 4 June 1945, Sir Alfred Webb-Johnson, the President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, came to Glasgow to receive the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons (RFPSG).' The Royal Faculty was an ancient medical licensing body whose office bearers and Fellows had traditionally made up the majority of the clinical elite in the two main local teaching hospita...