RCSI Heritage Collections

The papers of Emily Winifred Dickson the first female Fellow of the RCSI have been fully catalogued and will soon be available for researchers to study.  Dickson  was born in Tyrone in 1866 to the Ulster Liberal MP Thomas A. Dickson and his wife Elizabeth. She was the second youngest of seven children and was educated at the Ladies Collegiate School in Belfast and Harold House School in London. In 1887 she enrolled in RCSI, where she was the only female medical student. The certificate below is a  RCSI first class certificate in Preliminary Education awarded to Emily Winifred Dickson on 19th October 1887. The certificate is signed by Anthony Corley, President and John Brennan, Registrar.  RCSI/IP/Dickson/1/1/1 RCSI/IP/Dickson/7/3 (Back) RCSI/IP/Dickson/7/3 (Front) The inscription reads  'Presented to Miss Winifred Dickson by Sir William Stokes and Professor Hamilton Professors of Surgery Session 1889-90' Dickson obtained...

Over the holidays we were contacted by Dr. Rod Tanchanco of Delaware, USA, who was looking for images of Robert Adams (RCSI President 1840, 1860 and 1867) and William Stokes (RCPI President 1849) for a blog post he was writing. Robert Adams (1796-1875) William Stokes (1804-1878) Image courtesy of the RCPI Rod's blog entitled 'A Remarkable Slowness of the Pulse' can be found here  Medicine Tales   and what an interesting read it is! - Researched and written by Meadhbh Murphy