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Milton Rogovin

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Andrew Duncan, 1744 - 1828. President of the Royal Medical Society and of the Royal College of Physicians (About 1780)

John Brown
Sir James Young Simpson, 1811 - 1870. Discoverer of chloroform (About 1860)

John Moffat
James Clerk Maxwell, 1831 – 1879. Physicist (2009)

Alexander Stoddart
Joseph Lister, 1st Lord Lister, 1827 – 1912 (About 1855)

James Good Tunny
Sir James Black, 1924 - 2010. Pharmacologist (2001)

George Devlin
Three Oncologists (Professor RJ Steele, Professor Sir Alfred Cuschieri and Professor Sir David P Lane of the Department of Surgery and Molecular... (2002)

Ken Currie
Mary Fairfax, Mrs William Somerville, 1780 - 1872. Writer on science (About 1833)

Pierre-Jean David d'Angers
A Life Mask (2015)

Ken Currie
Peter Higgs, 1929 - 2024. Physicist (1981)

Lucinda L. Mackay
Dr. John Rogerson, 1741 - 1823. Physician and adviser to Catherine the Great (1792 - 1796)

Johann Battista Lampi I
Andrew Duncan, 1744 - 1828. President of the Royal Medical Society and of the Royal College of Physicians (1825)

Sir John Watson Gordon
Sir James Young Simpson, 1811 - 1870. Discoverer of chloroform (About 1889)

John Stevenson Rhind
Sir Douglas Maclagan, 1812 - 1900 Surgeon General (About 1840)

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William Cullen, 1710 - 1790. Chemist and physician (Published 1803)

Ridley
James Currie, 1756 - 1805. Physician and man of letters (About 1800 - 1805)

Horace Hone
Professor James Gregory, 1753 - 1821. Physician and Author (1805)

George Dawe
The Lullaby (1861)

Sir Joseph Noel Paton

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