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Photograph of David Yellowlees, past president of the College.

David Yellowlees graduated MD in 1857 from the University of Edinburgh. At the start of his career he worked at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary as the assistant to William Gairdner. He also worked at the Royal Asylum of Edinburgh in Morningside. The majority of his career was spent as Physician Superintendent of the Royal Asylum of Glasgow at Gartnavel, becoming a leader in the care of mental diseases.

Yellowlees was president of the College from 1892 to 1894.

Psychological medicine : a short introduction to psychiatry. With an appendix War-time psychiatry

Sir Byrom Bramwell was a British neurosurgeon, medical author and artist. The illustrations in Bramwell’s atlas were all his own work and based on the cases he came across in his wards at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

Petition to the sheriff to grant order for the reception of a patient into a mental hospital.