Sir Andrew Douglas Maclagan PRSE FRCPE FRCSE FCS FRSSA was a Scottish surgeon, toxicologist and scholar of medical jurisprudence. He served as president of 5 learned societies: the Royal Medical Socie
Andrew Douglas Maclagan in 1881
Douglas Maclagan by John Hutchison
The Maclagan grave, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh
Madeleine Hamilton Smith was a Scottish woman who was accused of murdering her lover with arsenic in a sensational murder trial in Scotland in 1857. Defended by John Inglis, she was not convicted of m
Andrew Douglas Maclagan
…Junior assistant to Robert Christison in the medical evidence for the Burke and Hare trial Affirmed the victim was poisoned by arsenic in the Madeleine Smith trial (1857) Affirmed use of poison in the trial of Eugene Marie Chantrelle (1878…
The building where Smith and her fiancé Minnoch each had apartments.
L'Angelier's rooming house
A sketch of the trial proceedings against Smith
6-7 Blythswood Square. Madeleine Smith's apartment house. 2020.