Public university in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Quasi cursores. Portraits of the high officers and professors of the University of Edinburgh at its tercentenary festival / Drawn and etched by William Hole.

Dr Barclay's advocation to the proposed professorship of comparative anatomy supported and opposed: represented by him riding the skeleton of an elephant into the University of Edinburgh. Etching by J. Kay, 1817.

Additional hints respecting the improvement of the system of medical instruction followed in the University of Edinburgh : humbly submitted to the consideration of the patrons and professors of that institution / [by John Thomson].

The Edinburgh students' guide to the University, Royal College of Surgeons, &c &c. &c.

Suggestions for the consideration ... of the College Committee, when they make up the Report concerning the medical curriculum of the University, as ordered by the ... town-council, 27th Nov. 1833 / by James Sanders.

A speech delivered at a quarterly statutory meeting of the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh, on the 15th of January 1825, accusing James Hamilton of having published a false and calumnious libel against the Senatus Academicus as a corporate body; against the institutions of medicine, as a branch of education at Edinburgh; and against the present professor of institutions of medicine, as an individual / by Andrew Duncan.

A speech delivered at a quarterly statutory meeting of the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh : on the 15th of January 1825, accusing James Hamilton of having published a false and calumnious libel against the Senatus Academicus as a corporate body; against the institutions of medicine, as a branch of education at Edinburgh; and against the present professo [sic] of institutions of medicine, as an individual / by Andrew Duncan, sen.

Dissertatio inauguralis, de aere dephlogisticato ... / / Eruditorum examini subjicit Jonathan Stokes.

Relaxed skeletal muscle showing sarcomeres & nucleus

Layer of epithelial cells - coloured

Blood vessel with red and white blood cells

Growth hormone producing cell from the pituitary gland

White blood cell - polymorphonuclear leucocyte

Goblet cells are packed full of mucous globules (blue), which they release to provide lubrication and protection to the inner surfaces of the intestine and the respiratory system among others. The mucous globules are condensed inside the goblet cell but expand hugely once they are released, absorbing water within 20 milliseconds. This rapid release occurs in response to lots of different stimuli and allows the mucous to get to work instantly.

Microvilli on epithelial cells

Cells with organelles

Flea larva

Ox louse clinging to a hair - coloured SEM

Dissertatio physiologica inauguralis de ventris in reliquum corpus potestate; / quam,... eruditorum examini subjicit Gulielmus Henricus Duncan,... iv Id. Julii, hora locoque solitis.

Dissertatio medica inauguralis de scrophula ... / [Richard Pearson].

Dissertatio medica inauguralis de colica Pictonum ... / [Samuel Pett].

Dissertatio medico physiologica inauguralis de asphyxia ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Jacobus Gloster, Hibernus.

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Dissertatio physiologica inauguralis de ventris in reliquum corpus potestate; / quam,... eruditorum examini subjicit Gulielmus Henricus Duncan,... iv Id. Julii, hora locoque solitis.

Dissertatio medica inauguralis de scrophula ... / [Richard Pearson].

Dissertatio medica inauguralis de colica Pictonum ... / [Samuel Pett].

Microvilli on epithelial cells

Dissertatio medico physiologica inauguralis de asphyxia ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Jacobus Gloster, Hibernus.

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University of Edinburgh

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Dissertatio physiologica inauguralis de ventris in reliquum corpus potestate; / quam,... eruditorum examini subjicit Gulielmus Henricus Duncan,... iv Id. Julii, hora locoque solitis.

Dissertatio medica inauguralis de scrophula ... / [Richard Pearson].

Dissertatio medica inauguralis de colica Pictonum ... / [Samuel Pett].

Microvilli on epithelial cells

Dissertatio medico physiologica inauguralis de asphyxia ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Jacobus Gloster, Hibernus.

Frequent collaborators

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