This is the story of how medical education came to Wales towards the end of the nineteenth and the early decades of the twentieth centuries. It is among the finest of the legacies of the Physicians of Myddfai (Meddygon Myddfai), the thirteenth century family from Carmarthenshire.
This absorbing history begins from the time the Romans left Britain in the fifth century. From the Renaissance into the twentieth century there was a relentless growth of medical understanding across Europe, centuries which also saw Wales' literacy and religious traditions develop. With huge changes in Welsh society consequent on the nineteenth century agrarian and industrial revoltions there would be great improvements in Welsh education culminating in the latter years of the nineteenth century in the establishment of the federal University of Wales and within which in1893 would be born, in the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Wales' first medical school. In 1931 it blossomed, despite Mabinogion-like intrigues and jealousies into the Welsh National School of Medicine. It changed its name in 1984 to the University of Wales College of Medicine which grew to become an internationally recognised all-Wales institution for clinical medical education and research which embraced all the health care professions.
But this is not the end of the story ......
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