University of Edinburgh Medical School

Mm-hmm.

Because I hap- happened to realize that my, one of my local practices, and it was all female practice, two female doctors, all the staff, and they, in their leaflet it said that they were trained in, uh, Edinburgh Medical School, and they had an interest in homeopathy.

And I, I couldn't believe it when I read this.

So I just rang them up and said, "Can I meet you?" And they said, "Sure." And we had a lunch meeting, 20-minute lunch meeting, and I explained, and they said, "Well, we're, we're opening a new practice in six months.

We have to look at the crucible his mind was forged in.

The text points out that between 1876 and 1881, a young Arthur Conan Doyle was studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh Medical School.

Which was a big deal at the time, right?

A massive deal.

And this article was published in 1976, which is some 150 years ago, in a journal that no longer runs, the Edinburgh Medical Journal.

This year, 2026, is the 300-year anniversary of the founding of the Edinburgh Medical School.

It's alleged to be the oldest English-speaking medical school in the world.

Although, of course, whenever one claims to be the first of something, it's almost always contested.