Prof Arthur Gamgee FRS FRSE was a British biochemist.
Arthur Gamgee
Extramural medical education in Edinburgh
Extramural medical education in Edinburgh began over 200 years before the university medical faculty was founded in 1726 and extramural teaching continued thereafter for a further 200 years. Extramural is academic education which is conducted outside a university. In the early 16th century it was under the auspices of the Incorporation of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) and continued after the Faculty of Medicine was established by the University of Edinburgh in 1726. Throughout the late 18th and 19th centuries the demand for extramural medical teaching increased as Edinburgh's reputation as a centre for medical education grew. Instruction was carried out by individual teachers, by groups of teachers and, by the end of the 19th century, by private medical schools in the city. Together these comprised the Edinburgh Extramural School of Medicine. From 1896 many of the schools were incorporated into the Medical School of the Royal Colleges of Edinburgh under the aegis of the RCSEd and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE) and based at Surgeons' Hall. Extramural undergraduate medical education in Edinburgh stopped in 1948 with the closure of the Royal Colleges' Medical School following the Goodenough Report which recommended that all undergraduate medical education in the UK should be carried out by universities.
East facade of the Old College, University of Edinburgh
Old Surgeons' Hall, Surgeons Square, built in 1697. - geograph.org.uk - 1283610
Surgeon's Square, Edinburgh in 1828. Thomas Shepherd. (Wellcome L0001728EA). Old Surgeons' Hall is on the left. The building in the centre is number 10 Surgeons' Square, the anatomy school of John Barclay and Robert Knox.
30 Chambers Street, Edinburgh. The building which housed the College of Medicine for Women was demolished and replaced in 1927 by this building, the former Edinburgh Dental Hospital