To encourage convivial relations between Fellows of the two medical Royal Colleges in Edinburgh
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Original Minute Book of the Aesculapian ClubExtract from minutes of an early meeting of the Aesculapian Club
The Aesculapian Club of Edinburgh is one of the oldest medical dining clubs in the world. It was founded in April 1773 by Dr. Andrew Duncan.[1][2][3] Membership of the club is limited to 11 Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and 11 Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. 'Extraordinary Membership' is given to members aged over 70 years. The club was established during the Scottish Enlightenment to encourage convivial relations between Fellows of the two Colleges and to stimulate intellectual discussion. The Club dinners are held in the New Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on the 2nd Friday of March and October each year.[4] The principal guest at each dinner is invited to give a short talk on a non-medical subject and this is followed by a round-table discussion.[4][5]
^Guthrie, Douglas. The Aesculapian Club of Edinburgh. University of Edinburgh.
^Smith, John (1888). Records of the Aesculapian. Frank Murray.
^Stuart, William J. History of the Aesculapian Club of Edinburgh. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Darien Press Ltd, Edinburgh.
^ abMinute Books of the Aesculapian Club. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
^Chalmers, John (2010). Andrew Duncan Senior; Physician of the Enlightenment. Edinburgh: National Museums Scotland. pp. 115–121. ISBN 978-1-905267309.
The AesculapianClub of Edinburgh is one of the oldest medical dining clubs in the world. It was founded in April 1773 by Dr. Andrew Duncan. Membership...
served as president in 1897. In 1876 he was elected a member of the AesculapianClub. He was elected president of the RCSEd in 1887. Bell wrote the book...
The AesculapianClub has had many notable former members. The following sections give a list of former members of the Club in chronological order of their...
Philosophical Society in 1863. In 1850 he was also elected a member of the AesculapianClub. He was created a Baronet of Strathavon in the County of Linlithgow...
Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 1784 he was elected a member of the AesculapianClub. At this time he lived at Hyndford Close on the Royal Mile a house...
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary In 1872 he was elected a member of the AesculapianClub. Therefore, Lister tested the results of spraying instruments, surgical...
associate of Charles Darwin. In 1846 he was elected a member of the AesculapianClub. Balfour served for many years as dean of the faculty of medicine in...
Society are closely linked with the AesculapianClub, which was founded by Andrew Duncan in 1773. The AesculapianClub offered a 'Harveian prize' for the...
doctorate (LLD) in 1883. In 1867 he was also elected a member of the AesculapianClub and in 1877 became its Honorary Secretary. He remained in this role...
the manner, of his quarrels. In 1849 he was elected a member of the AesculapianClub. He was elected President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh...
subjected by his namesake. In 1773 Bell was a founding member of the AesculapianClub. In 1775 Bell fell from horseback and sustained injuries that were...
and its president in 1794. In 1773 he was elected a member of the AesculapianClub. On 12 April 1782 Spens was one of the founding members of the Harveian...
Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1879 he was elected a member of the AesculapianClub In 1889 and 1890 he reported about an arrow poison used in coastal...
Society's Vice President 1933-36. In 1933 he was elected a member of the AesculapianClub. In 1914 he published a paper in which he gave equations for the pure...
have been his lifelong friend. In 1899 he was elected a member of the AesculapianClub. He was president of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society on no fewer...
Turner and Alexander Crum Brown. In 1881 he was elected a member of the AesculapianClub. In 1894 he opened the Craig House extension to the Royal Edinburgh...
St. Andrews for many years. In 1883 he was elected a member of the AesculapianClub. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. at Edinburgh in 1884, and...
Harveian Society of Edinburgh. In 1910 he was elected a member of the AesculapianClub. In 1912 he spoke to the AGM of the British Medical Association on...
councillor to the Society 1869–71. In 1837 he was elected a member of the AesculapianClub. In 1839, he became a senior surgeon at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on...
served as president in 1900. In 1886 he was elected a member of the AesculapianClub. He was made honorary D.C.L. of the University of Durham in April 1902...
Harveian Society of Edinburgh and in 1904 he was elected a member of the AesculapianClub. He died unexpectedly at home, 18 Grosvenor Crescent in Edinburgh's...
President of the RCSEd in 1941. In 1932 he was elected a member of the AesculapianClub. In recognition of his service to the University of Edinburgh he was...
served as President in 1846. In 1839 he was elected a member of the AesculapianClub. In 1848, Dr. Ransford resigned from his position in Edinburgh and...
Books of the AesculapianClub. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Stuart, William J. History of the AesculapianClub of Edinburgh...
William Rutherford Sanders. In 1879 he was elected a member of the AesculapianClub. At this time he was living at 6 Walker Street in Edinburgh’s West...
in Edinburgh 1852 to 1854. In 1833 he was elected a member of the AesculapianClub. In 1837 Traill was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh...
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