The Royal Infirmary at Edinburgh

This print shows the north front of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh as it looked in the eighteenth century. The infirmary moved to this location in 1741. The building had 228 beds and functioned as a site for clinical teaching for medical professors and students at the University of Edinburgh. Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1789 that for the study of science, “no place in the world can pretend to a competition with Edinburgh.”