Beaton medical kindred

The kindred appears to have emigrated from Ireland in the fourteenth century, where members seem to have originally learned their craft.

[4] In time the kindred came to be prominent in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, although the earliest known member appears on record in the Lowlands, in Dumfries, during the early fourteenth century.

[3] Eventually, the kindred became the largest and longest serving of the three major mediaeval medical dynasties in Gaelic Scotland.

[10] Members were employed by every Scottish monarch between Robert I, King of Scotland (died 1329) and Charles I, King of Scotland (died 1649),[11] and patronised by numerous Scottish clans such as the Frasers of Lovat,[9] MacDonald Lords of the Isles,[3] the MacLeans of Duart,[12] the MacLeods of Dunvegan,[3] and the Munros of Foulis.

In Chapter 7, Claire goes through the workspace of a fictional Davie Beaton, the now-deceased physician of Castle Leoch, providing the reader with a harrowing view of cutting-edge 18th-century medicine.

A fourteenth- or fifteenth-century free-standing cross, Kilchoman , Islay . The cross is dedicated to a certain Thomas, son of a doctor named Patrick. These men may well have been members of the Beaton medical kindred. [ 1 ]