Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
Overview
 
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, is an institute of physician
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

s and surgeon
Surgeon
In medicine, a surgeon is a specialist in surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such as the removal of diseased tissue or to repair a tear or breakage...

s in Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

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Founded by Peter Lowe
Peter Lowe (surgeon)
Peter Lowe was a surgeon and founder of the institution now known as the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.-Biography:Lowe was born in Scotland around 1550 and left in 1565 to study medicine on the Continent...

 after receiving a royal charter
Royal Charter
A royal charter is a formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate. They were, and are still, used to establish significant organizations such as cities or universities. Charters should be distinguished from warrants and...

 by James VI in 1599, as the Glasgow Faculty, this institution originally existed as a regulatory authority to ensure that physicians, surgeons and dentists were well trained. In the 1st century or so, it included apothecaries and barbers, but these were excluded by 1722.
 
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