Royal Infirmary

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Education	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	He then entered Edinburgh University as a medical student—just after the university had successfully fought off the women seeking admission to the medical faculty. His most significant mentor was Joseph Bell (who was attached not...
Education	Olive Schreiner	OS sailed from her native South Africa for England, to train as a nurse at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh. First, Ruth, and Ann Scott. Olive Schreiner. André Deutsch, 1980. 80-1, 108
Wealth and Poverty	May Drummond	In 1738 her preaching raised so much money that she was able to make a donation of £372 and 7 shillings to her brother George 's Edinburgh Royal Infirmary . Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 28 , No. 2, Nov. 2015, pp. 287-12. 292

Subscribers to the Royal Infirmary , Edinburgh, narrowly elected a board of managers unsympathetic to the medical education of women.

Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.

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Female medical students were granted limited admission to the Royal Infirmary , Edinburgh.

Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.

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Following the controversy surrounding female medical students, Edinburgh University announced that it would no longer teach women.

Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.

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