Henry Littlejohn
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Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn MD LLD FRCSE was a Scottish surgeon, forensic scientist and public health official. He served for 46 years as Edinburgh's first Medical Officer of Health, during which time
Henry Duncan Littlejohn
An extract from one of the tables in Littlejohn's 1865 report
24 Royal Circus, Edinburgh
Littlejohn's grave at the Dean Cemetery
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. Extramura
Henry Littlejohn
…general practice. He was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1854. In 1856 he became a lecturer in medical jurisprudence at the Edinburgh Extramural School of Medicine at Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh. In 1862, Littlejohn was appointed Edinburgh's first Medical Officer of Health. This was at a time when many of the town's…
East facade of the Old College, University of Edinburgh
Old Surgeons' Hall, Surgeons Square, built in 1697. - geograph.org.uk - 1283610
Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh; the main location for extramural medical teaching. Etching 1840.
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.