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The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) was established in 1729, and is the oldest voluntary hospital in Scotland. The new buildings of 1879 were claimed to be the largest voluntary hospital in the United Kingdom, and later on, the Empire. [ 2 ]
Duncan wanted to establish a hospital in Edinburgh that would care for the mentally ill of the city and after launching an appeal in 1792 a grant of £2,000 was approved by Parliament in 1806. [2] A royal charter was granted by King George III in 1807 and the facility was then established as a public body. [ 3 ]
Royal Hospital, Donnybrook, a former hospital in Dublin, founded in 1743 as a hospital for incurables, then for venereal disease sufferers from 1792, and closed and demolished in 1949 Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin, a 1684 built retirement home for soldiers, restored in 1984 as the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
Undergraduate teaching through Year 1 and 2 centres mainly in the Old Medical School buildings on Teviot Row, in the university quarter of Edinburgh city centre. Clinical years (4, 5 and 6) are spent spread across the three main teaching hospitals in Edinburgh: the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and Royal Hospital for Sick Children in the city's ...
Small numbers went elsewhere in the UK, e.g. to the University of Edinburgh, and rarely further afield, such as to Harvard University. Before medical education became systematically ordered in the 19th century, it was possible to count attendance at a London teaching hospital towards an Edinburgh or Glasgow degree.
The hospital closed in 1999 and was redeveloped as residential housing, known as Greenbank Village. Streets in the development are named for Sir Henry Littlejohn and Robert Morham, reflecting the history of the hospital. [14] It was the subject of a book by James A. Gray, The Edinburgh City Hospital, published by Tuckwell Press in 1999. [15] [16]
The 20-bed hospital opened in July 1925. [3] [4] The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948 and was directly managed by the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. [3] After services transferred to the Eastern General Hospital, despite public protests about the proposed closure, the facility closed in 1988. [3]
Duncan was the inaugural President of the society and served as one of its Secretaries for 46 years from 1782-1828. In 1776 Duncan founded Edinburgh's first Public Dispensary at West Richmond Street. Later called the Royal Dispensary it stood until at least 1900. Duncan's portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn hung in the building's entrance hall. [8]