The Man With Three Legs - by
From the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery,
/ University of St Andrews
/ In the autumn of 1948 a message was received from a…
doctors and nurses
James Young Simpson: If It Is Our Mission … - by
‘If it is our mission
/ to alleviate suffering
/ as well as to preserve life
/ there should be no conscientious restraint
/
/ and if God has…
From the Hinterland - by
After a visit to the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh and especially for Kazimierz Kuczynski,
/ F.R.C.S. Edinburgh, and his…
The Case - by
In which river did the fish swim
/ that mistook for a fly a hook on a line
/ so drew its last, that…
To My Surgeon - by
No-one else sees me
/ drowning in the white wave
/ sprinkled with a terrible salt
/
/ invasive lobular carcinoma
/ is difficult to identify
/
/ but you take one…
Head: Sabre Wound - by
The strokes of a sabre
/ on his wan head –
/ those blows repeated
/ in the heat
/ of battle
/ where sabres whirl
/ like flames.
/
/ An attack
/ by a tiger
/ or…
James IV to his Treasurer - by
Oh for Christ’s sake gie the signor his siller.
/ Alchemist my erse, but he’s hermless, is he no?
/ He’ll never blaw us…
In Surgeons’ Hall, Edinburgh - by
Eyeing an African carved leaning tower
/ Of people holding one another up
/ For dear life, childishly I bless that stranger
/
/ Who in a…
The Eye in the Hand - by
At the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
/
/ My only talent lay in these.
/ My father rubbed his hands together,
/ stared as though…
Increasingly sophisticated methods of divination used in the practice of medicine - by
By observing a rooster pecking grain.
/ By the various behaviours of birds.
/ By balancing a stone on a red-hot axe.
/ By the shape…