{"title":"The skulls of two students of African descent in the University of Edinburgh's Anatomical Museum.","authors":"Simon Buck","doi":"10.1177/14782715251338729","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14782715251338729","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article investigates the identities of two students of African descent whose skulls, having first been acquired by the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh sometime in the mid-nineteenth century, today reside in the University of Edinburgh's Anatomical Museum. Examining archival records in Edinburgh and the Caribbean, it proposes a possible identification of the individuals as Robert Bruce Richards and George Richards, two brothers of mixed European and African descent from Barbados who appear to have studied at the University of Edinburgh in the early 1830s and died during their time there. The article explains the rationale for this possible identification, while also acknowledging and explaining evidential gaps and inconsistencies. It provides information on the Richards' background in Barbados and their deaths in Edinburgh and speculates how and why the students' skulls might have been acquired by Edinburgh's Phrenological Society (whose collection of human remains later entered the University's Anatomical Museum). Finally, the article reflects on the significance and methodological and ethical complexities of this case, situating the research in the context of calls for decolonisation, reparative justice and the repatriation of colonially derived ancestral remains in the Anatomical Museum's contested 'collection'.</p>","PeriodicalId":46606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh","volume":" ","pages":"114-122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144188265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shahrukh Rehman, Muzzamil Ahmed, Khalil Ullah Khan, Soban Ahmed Qureshi, Muhammad Adnan, Sohaib Raza
{"title":"Emphasizing the clinical impact of the HINTS examination review; a vital contribution to acute care.","authors":"Shahrukh Rehman, Muzzamil Ahmed, Khalil Ullah Khan, Soban Ahmed Qureshi, Muhammad Adnan, Sohaib Raza","doi":"10.1177/14782715251342124","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14782715251342124","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh","volume":" ","pages":"156-157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144095369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The hook osteophyte (sign) in hereditary haemochromatosis.","authors":"Noor Jawad, Ali Jawad","doi":"10.1177/14782715251327244","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14782715251327244","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh","volume":" ","pages":"148-149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143606588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sonika Garg, Biswanath Behera, Vishal Thakur, Shreya K Gowda
{"title":"Cutaneous pigmentation and sensory ataxia in vitamin B12 deficiency.","authors":"Sonika Garg, Biswanath Behera, Vishal Thakur, Shreya K Gowda","doi":"10.1177/14782715251325580","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14782715251325580","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh","volume":" ","pages":"108-109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143606586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nasal ala destruction: A clue to trigeminal trophic syndrome.","authors":"Sree Parvathy, Keepa Manandhar, Shreya K Gowda","doi":"10.1177/14782715251342132","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14782715251342132","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh","volume":" ","pages":"158-159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144081315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women who qualified as doctors in the United Kingdom, 1877-1914: Birthplaces, parentage and training.","authors":"Roger Jeffery","doi":"10.1177/14782715251333612","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14782715251333612","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper uses a newly created database of all women who gained a qualification registrable with the General Medical Council between 1877 and 1914 to answer the following questions. Where and when were they born, where were their parents born and where did they train? The paper shows that women doctors born in Scotland or of Scotland-born parentage formed a much higher proportion of the population of that country than those born in England and Wales, or in Ireland. In addition, Scotland trained a disproportionately higher share of those trained in the United Kingdom. Odds ratios are used to establish the significance of this picture. Some provisional ideas are advanced towards an explanation of these findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":46606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh","volume":" ","pages":"123-131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144041726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Which digital application do healthcare professionals use for communication within the National Health Service?","authors":"Krishna Kannan, Harsh Goswami, Indrajit Chattopadhyay, Vedamurthy Adhiyaman","doi":"10.1177/14782715251342123","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14782715251342123","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh","volume":" ","pages":"154-155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144086867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R Sriman Narayan Reddy, Balaji Musunuri, Shiran Shetty
{"title":"Colonic pseudo-obstruction with bowel preparation for colonoscopy: A rare complication.","authors":"R Sriman Narayan Reddy, Balaji Musunuri, Shiran Shetty","doi":"10.1177/14782715251334692","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14782715251334692","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh","volume":" ","pages":"112-113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144052865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond biologics: The role of plasmapheresis in severe psoriasis.","authors":"Sharang Gupta","doi":"10.1177/14782715251338732","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14782715251338732","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh","volume":" ","pages":"152-153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143987877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jennifer Murray, Amirhosein Kefayat, Mhairi Finlayson, John Paul Seenan, Ronald Hsu, Shahida Din
{"title":"RCPE in association with the American College of Gastroenterology and the Scottish Society of Gastroenterology - Gastroenterology: A global perspective.","authors":"Jennifer Murray, Amirhosein Kefayat, Mhairi Finlayson, John Paul Seenan, Ronald Hsu, Shahida Din","doi":"10.1177/14782715251332318","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14782715251332318","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>On 6 November 2024, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE) hosted its annual gastroenterology symposium, marking the first collaboration with the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) and the Scottish Society of Gastroenterology (SSG). The event addressed key global challenges in gastroenterology, including obesity, liver disease, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), the gut microbiome, endoscopy quality and artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Discussions emphasised the growing burden of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), with promising pharmacologic and endoscopic interventions emerging. Advances in microbiome-targeted therapies, including faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), were explored for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection and IBD. Professor David Rubin delivered the esteemed Sir Stanley Davidson lecture, highlighting the era of disease modification in IBD, emphasising early intervention and personalised treatment strategies. The symposium also addressed the role of AI in improving endoscopic detection rates and optimising resource allocation. This international collaboration underscored the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to tackling global digestive diseases, integrating clinical innovation, policy interventions and technological advancements. The event fostered knowledge exchange among global experts, aiming to advance patient care and improve long-term outcomes in gastroenterology.</p>","PeriodicalId":46606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh","volume":" ","pages":"132-138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143988957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}