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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.

"Hysteria or pithiatism : and reflex nervous disorders in the neurology of war"

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.

Set of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) in a cardboard box. Includes:

WAIS manual
British supplement to the manual,
Digit-Symbol key
Object Assembly Layout Shield
Word List
Blank Record Forms
Picture arrangement booklet
Picture completion and block design cards booklet
Box containing coloured Block Design pieces
4 plastic bags with Object Assembly Test pieces

David Yellowlees medal in leather-covered case.

Dr David Yellowlees was the Physician Superintendent of the Glasgow Royal Asylum (Gartnavel) from 1874 to 1901. He also held the post of Lecturer in Insanity at the University of Glasgow from 1880.

A controversial figure in his day, Yellowlees was an advocate for using restraint in certain patient cases at Gartnavel, despite the majority of asylums moving away from this method.

Robert Cleghorn studied medicine in Edinburgh and graduated MD in 1783 moving to Glasgow in 1785. He entered the Faculty (now Royal College) of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1786, becoming its President between 1789 and 1791 and Librarian from October 1792.

He was physician to the poorhouse or Town’s Hospital in Glasgow between 1786 and 1791 and also one of the original managers of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary which opened in 1794. A number of his casebooks from this period are preserved in the College archive. He subsequently (in 1814) became first physician and then a director of the Glasgow Royal Asylum for Lunatics in Dobbie’s Loan.

Seated three-quarter length by a desk. Oil on canvas.