Conan Doyle stated that the character of Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

Hospitals in Edinburgh include the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, which includes Edinburgh University Medical School, and the Western General Hospital, which includes a large cancer treatment centre and the nurse-led Minor Injuries Clinic.

The Royal Infirmary is the main Accident & Emergency hospital not just for Edinburgh but also Midlothian and East Lothian, and is the headquarters of NHS Lothian, making it a centric focus for Edinburgh and its hinterland.

The study of the Bradford Royal Infirmary found that dog bites were twice as common during a full moon, whereas the study conducted by the public hospitals in Australia found that they were less likely.

* 1960 – Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

In 1930, Cecil George Paine, a pathologist at the Royal Infirmary in Sheffield, attempted to use penicillin to treat sycosis barbae, eruptions in beard follicles, but was unsuccessful, probably because the drug did not penetrate the skin deeply enough.

Doyle said that the character of Sherlock Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

In 1767 he started as a consultant at Stafford Royal Infirmary.

* October 30 – Dr. Michael Woodruff carries out the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom, in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

** Cecil George Paine, a pathologist at the Sheffield Royal Infirmary in England, achieves the first recorded cure ( of an eye infection ) using penicillin.

Between 1922-27, he attended medical schools at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and St Mary's Hospital, London, London, achieving MRCS and LRCP.

On the same day, 19 December 1846, in Dumfries Royal Infirmary, Scotland, a Dr. Scott used ether for a surgical procedure.

In 1901 his heir, William Watson-Armstrong gave £ 100, 000 (£ as of ), for the building of the new Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne.

The city also has a Radio Lollipop station based at the Great North Children's Hospital in the Newcastle Royal Victoria Infirmary.

and the women visiting Manchester on Whit-Saturday, thronging the markets, the Royal Exchange and the Infirmary Esplanade, and other public places: And gazing in at the shop windows, whence this day is usually called ' Gaping Sunday '.

* The Royal Infirmary, Glasgow ( 1791 – 94 ) rebuilt 1914

Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary is the principal secondary care referral centre for Dumfries and Galloway region.

The Crichton Royal Hospital is part of the Royal Infirmary complex and provides a regional psychiatric, psychological and specialist addicitions service within Dumfries and Galloway.

Thereafter, he worked at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, the Joseph Tie Laboratory, and the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis.

He was examined at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary by an ECG.

Although Edward's comments had made him popular in Wales, he became extremely unpopular with the public in Scotland following his refusal to open a new wing of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, claiming he could not do so because he was in mourning for his father.

A clearly marked emergency department at the The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

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The Pipe Major of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was summoned to Edinburgh Castle and chastised for demeaning the bagpipes.

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A statue of Hume by Alexander Stoddart on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh

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Dewar called the Royal High School on Calton Hill in Edinburgh a " nationalist shibboleth ", mainly because it had been the proposed site of the Scottish Assembly in the 1979 referendum.

The Britannica has an Editorial Board of Advisors, which includes 12 distinguished scholars: author Nicholas Carr, religion scholar Wendy Doniger, political economist Benjamin M. Friedman, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb, computer scientist David Gelernter, Physics Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, philosopher Thomas Nagel, cognitive scientist Donald Norman, musicologist Don Michael Randel, Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch.

Other notable institutions include the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh which were established by Royal Charter, in 1506 and 1681 respectively.

The Royal Edinburgh Hospital specialises in mental health ; it is situated in Morningside.

The Royal Lyceum Theatre has its own company, while the King's Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Theatre, and Edinburgh Playhouse stage large touring shows.

That's because the good professor teaches only Weider methods at his famous Montreal Health Studio which is located at 1821 Mt. Royal East in Montreal.

The planking is five-ply, 3/8-inch-thick Weldwood Royal Marine plywood.

It is a kind of justice, too, that it should originate in London's Royal Albert Hall, where, traditionally, the loudest, if not the greatest, performers have entertained the thousands it will accommodate ( RCA Victor LM 2454, $4.98 ).

Reference to them is made according to the organization of Immanuel Bekker's Royal Prussian Academy edition ( Aristotelis Opera edidit Academia Regia Borussica, Berlin, 1831 – 1870 ), which in turn is based on ancient classifications of these works.

* is the name of two ships of the Royal Navy

Arne Kaijser ( born 1950 ) is a professor of History of Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and the head of the university's department of History of science and technology.

Kaijser is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences since 2007 and also a member of the editorial board of two scientific journals: Journal of Urban Technology and Centaurus.

* 1918 – The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.

* 1924 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.

* 1945 – World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.

* 1972 – In an unsuccessful coup d ' état attempt, the Royal Moroccan Air Force fires upon Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.

It is at this point that Paris gives Aeneas Priam's sword, in order to give legitimacy and continuity to the Royal Line of Troy – and lay the foundations of Rome.

He called this new policy novæ institutiones in his deeds, and he declared that " Nothing can set bounds to generosity of the Royal Majesty, and the best measure of grants, for a monarch, is immeasurableness ".

* 1738 – Real Academia de la Historia (" Royal Academy of History ") is founded in Madrid.

* 1899 – The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.

His other alma mater, the Royal Polytechnic Institution ( now the University of Westminster ) has named one of its student halls of residence Alexander Fleming House, which is near to Old Street.

Astronomer Royal is a senior post in the Royal Households of the United Kingdom.

There are two officers, the senior being the Astronomer Royal dating from 22 June 1675 ; the second is the Astronomer Royal for Scotland dating from 1834.

As Astronomer Royal he receives a stipend of 100 GBP per year and is a member of the Royal Household, under the general authority of the Lord Chamberlain.