| Description Of Item | Iain MacLaren, retired surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Side 1 - childhood and his father's medical career. Describes his life as a medical student in Edinburgh in the late 1940s. 130-140 in his year including ex-servicemen. Drop out rate and rules for national service. Guy Marrian Professor of Medical Chemistry. Department of Anatomy staff: Dr E B Jamieson (25 minutes), Dr Robert Warmsley, Professor J C Brash and his poor lecturing and Professor Cunningham. Botany lectures at the Botanic Gardens (38 minutes) by Sir William Wright-Smith. Pandemonium of physics lectures. 10 shillings a week pocket money from his father (44 minutes). Student's Union.
Side 2 - Student's Union and the Union Palais; membership of the Royal Medical Society, hearing Sir Alexander Fleming, giving his own dissertation on lung cancer in 1947 and how the Society was conducted. |