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In the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh was the leading centre of medical education and research in Britain. It also laid claim to ~a thriving periodical culture, which served as a significant medium ~for the dissemination and exchange of medical and literary ideas ~throughout Britain, the colonies, and beyond. Literature and Medicine ~in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press explores the relationship ~between the medical culture of Romantic-era Scotland and ~the periodical press by examining several medically-trained contributors ~to Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, the most influential and ~innovative literary periodical of the era.